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ascendancy(dictionary)

ascendancy (iou)



ascendancy noun. Also ascendency, (in sense 2) Ascendancy. E18.
[from ASCENDANT + -ANCY.]
Supremacy, paramount influence (over), dominant control; the state or quality of being in the ascendant. E18.
spec. (Hist.) (Usu. with the.) The domination by the Anglo-Irish Protestant minority in Ireland esp. in the 18th and 19th cents.; the dominant class itself. Also more fully Protestant ascendancy. L18.
ascendance noun = ASCENDANCY 1 M18.