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ascendancy, -ency|əˈsɛndənsɪ|
[f. ascendant: see -ancy.]
The state or quality of being in the ascendant; paramount influence, dominant control, domination, sway. Const. over.
(Of 40 authors examined, -ancy occurred in 4 18th c. and 15 19th c. writers, including Watts, Lyell, Arnold, Dickens, Mill, Lecky, Seeley, Earle, Trollope; -ency in 2 18th c. and 14 19th c. writers, including Burke, Hallam, Lingard, Thirlwall, Alison, Macaulay, Froude, Freeman; both occurred in editions of 5 writers.)
1712Polesworth Hist. John Bull in Arbuthnot Misc. Wks. 1751 II. xxii. 93 She had no small Ascendancy over John. c1796Burke Let. R. Burke Wks. IX. 425 The poor word, ascendency..is now employed to cover to the world the most rigid, and perhaps not the most wise, of all plans of policy. In plain old English, as they apply it, it signifies ‘pride and dominion’ on the one part of the relation, and on the other, ‘subserviency and contempt’—and it signifies nothing else. 1838–43Arnold Hist. Rome III. xliii. 132 Overpowered by the ascendancy of Hannibal's character. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 548 That he would not patiently submit to the ascendency of France. |