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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" [syn: dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control]

Merriam Webster's

also ascendency noun Date: 1677 governing or controlling influence ; domination

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (also ascendency) (often foll. by over) a superior or dominant condition or position.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ascendancy As*cend"an*cy, Ascendance As*cend"ance, n. Same as Ascendency.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also ascendency If one group has ascendancy over another group, it has more power or influence than the other group. (FORMAL) Although geographically linked, the two provinces have long fought for political ascendancy... = dominance

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n.; (also ascendency) Power, authority, sway, control, superiority, government, mastery, masterdom, command, dominion, rule, sovereignty, supremacy, domination, predominance, controlling influence, advantage over, upper-hand.

Moby Thesaurus

Cadmean victory, KO, Pyrrhic victory, accomplishment, ascendance, authority, balance of power, championship, charisma, charm, clout, conquest, consequence, control, credit, deanship, dominance, dominancy, domination, dominion, easy victory, effect, eminence, eminent domain, enchantment, esteem, excellence, favor, force, good feeling, grand slam, greatness, hold, importance, incidental power, incomparability, influence, influentiality, inimitability, insinuation, knockout, landslide, landslide victory, lead, leadership, leverage, magnetism, majority, masterdom, mastery, moment, moral victory, one-upmanship, overlordship, personality, persuasion, picnic, potency, power, precedence, predominance, predominancy, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, pressure, prestige, primacy, principality, priority, privilege, purchase, pushover, reign, repute, right-of-way, rule, runaway victory, say, seniority, skill, sovereignty, suasion, subdual, subduing, subtle influence, success, suggestion, superiority, supremacy, suzerainship, suzerainty, sway, total victory, transcendence, transcendency, triumph, upper hand, victory, virtuosity, walkaway, walkover, weight, whip hand, win, winning, winning streak