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Meaning of ascendent

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  ascendent
      adj 1: tending or directed upward; "rooted and ascendant
             strength like that of foliage"- John Ruskin [syn:
             {ascendant}, {ascendent}, {ascensive}]
      2: most powerful or important or influential; "the economically
         ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event
         of the war in Europe" [syn: {ascendant}, {ascendent},
         {dominating}]
      n 1: position or state of being dominant or in control; "that
           idea was in the ascendant" [syn: {ascendant}, {ascendent}]
      2: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote
         than a grandparent) [syn: {ancestor}, {ascendant},
         {ascendent}, {antecedent}, {root}] [ant: {descendant},
         {descendent}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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