what does ascendency mean?
ASCENDENCY as NOUN
- Meaning
- the state that exists when one person or group has power over another
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- her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her
Hypernyms(s) ascendency is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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