Superiority or decisive advantage; domination: “Germany only awaits trade revival to gain an immense mercantile ascendancy” (Winston S. Churchill).
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Superiority or decisive advantage; domination: “Germany only awaits trade revival to gain an immense mercantile ascendancy” (Winston S. Churchill).
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ascendancy, a term generally used to refer to the Protestant upper classes of Ireland in the 18th cent. and later. The defeat of the Jacobites [see Williamite War] in 1689-91 left local political power entirely in the hands of a Protestant landed class. Their dominance was based partly on a near-monopoly of landed wealth, partly on the exclusion from full citizenship of Catholics and Presbyterians. Landlord control was dented when Daniel O'Connell and others began to mobilize the Catholic masses from the 1820s. The decades after the Act of Union had seen a steady widening of Catholic access to the civil service, judiciary, and other former Protestant preserves. Land-ownership itself, for more than two centuries the key to political and social authority, was dismantled by a series of measures, notably the Wyndham Land Act of 1903. The term ‘Protestant ascendancy’ first came into use in the 1780s to define the constitutional arrangements that conservatives felt were being jeopardized by recent moves to allow greater political and religious freedom to Catholics [see Catholic Emancipation]. Its use was popularized during the bitter debates that accompanied the passage of the Relief Acts of 1792 and 1793.
The president used ascendancy to sway the voters.
Dansk (Danish)
n. - herredømme, magt, overlegenhed
Nederlands (Dutch)
overwicht, voorrang
Français (French)
n. - suprématie, prédominance, prépondérance, supériorité, ascendant, empire (sur), montée, ascension
Deutsch (German)
n. - Vorherrschaft, Übergewicht
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κυριαρχία, ηγεμονία, κυριαρχική επιρροή, υπεροχή, (αστρον.) επιτολή
Italiano (Italian)
ascendenza, supremazia
Português (Portuguese)
n. - domínio (m), poder (m), supremacia (f), ascendência (f)
Русский (Russian)
власть, господство, влияние
Español (Spanish)
n. - ascendiente, ascendencia
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - överlägsenhet, inflytande
中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
优势, 优越, 权势
中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 優勢, 優越, 權勢
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 日の出の勢い, 優勢, 優位, 支配力
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) سطوه, حكم, هيمنه
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - עליונות, שליטה
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