ascendancy

The definition of ascendancy is a position of domination.

(noun)

An example of ascendancy is being a king.

See ascendancy in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a position in which one has control or power; supremacy; domination

See ascendancy in American Heritage Dictionary 4

also as·cen·den·cy

noun

Superiority or decisive advantage; domination: “Germany only awaits trade revival to gain an immense mercantile ascendancy” (Winston S. Churchill).

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