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Ascendence

Definition: Ascendence

Ascendence

Noun

1. The state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ascendence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references)

"Ascendence" is a common misspelling or typo for: ascendance.


Synonyms: Ascendence

Synonyms: ascendance (n), ascendancy (n), ascendency (n), control (n), dominance (n). (additional references)

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Modern Translation: Ascendence

Language Translations for "ascendence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Domination (domination). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ascendenceay

   

Portuguese

  

ascendĂȘncia (domination, down, parentage, pedigree, power, provenance), poder (ability, action, afford, ascendance, ascendancy, be able to, can, energy, force, grasp, hand, hold, inning, leverage, may, might, potency, power, puissance, reach, rod, ruling, to be able), influĂȘncia (account, action, ascendance, ascendancy, contact, domination, energy, influence, inspiration, leading, leverage, power, prestige, purchase, weight, yeast). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Ascendence

Derivations

Words beginning with "ascendence": ascendences. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Ascendence

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-e-n-n-s"

-2 letters: cadences, nascence.

-3 letters: accedes, cadence, decanes, decease, encased, enneads, scanned.

-4 letters: accede, ascend, canned, ceased, censed, dances, decane, encase, ennead, nances, seance, secede, seneca.

-5 letters: acned, acnes, aedes, cades, caned, canes, cased, cease, cedes, cense, daces, dance, deans, denes, dense, eased, nance, needs, nenes, saned, scena, scend, scene, sedan, senna.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-e-e-n-n-s"
 

+1 letter: ascendences, candescence.

 

+2 letters: antecedences, ascendencies, candescences.

 

+3 letters: incandescence, transcendence.

 

+4 letters: deconcentrates, incandescences, transcendences.

 

+5 letters: transcendencies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ascendence


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 73 63 65 6E 64 65 6E 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    ...    -.-.    .    -.    -..    .    -.    -.-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110011 01100011 01100101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#115 &#99 &#101 &#110 &#100 &#101 &#110 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0073 0063 0065 006E 0064 0065 006E 0063 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35856971807071806971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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