Tending or directed upward.
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Examples for "ascendant "
Examples for "ascendant "
1 Thus the Centre Party is in the ascendant in the Rhenish Provinces.
2 For centuries the building forces in western civilization were in the ascendant .
3 But the star of the junior dayroom was not in the ascendant .
4 China, on the other hand, was described as economically and militarily ascendant .
5 The military party was in the ascendant , and did as it chose.
1 The chief of the ascendent political party was the real ruler.
2 Outside of his official duties his passion for work again gained the ascendent .
3 But at this Abe's prudence deserted him, and righteous wrath rose to the ascendent .
4 But the people were for the moment in the ascendent , and Bacon should not be sacrificed.
5 Hence his oft varying moods, as the one or the other part of him became ascendent .
1 The simple trial proved a complete success, due, as it appeared to them, to the ascensive power of a cloud of smoke.
2 Grace in the heart is an ascensive power, ever lifting its desires upward and upward, and so above the temptations of time and earth.
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