ascendency N
ascendency → ascendancy
ascendancy [əˈsendənsi] N no pl
1. ascendancy (power):
2. ascendancy (advantage):
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However, those who believe in their own groups superiority or inevitable ascendancy do not typically claim the label triumphalist.
en.wikipedia.org The police frequently lost the ascendancy to the rioters, who dispersed them and forced them to flee.
en.wikipedia.org The result was the end of the open-range system and the ascendancy of large-scale stock ranching and farming.
en.wikipedia.org You will never pay for your crimes and you will continue to preen yourself, to bask in your illusions of moral ascendancy.
en.wikipedia.org This is believed to refer more to administrative ascendancy rather than territorial size.
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