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ascendancy
Noun
  • ∙ The process or period of one's ascent
  • ∙ Supremacy; superiority; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant
  • ∙ A class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century