ascendent

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun position or state of being dominant or in control
noun someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
adjective tending or directed upward; - John Ruskin

In certain ascendents: under certain planetary influences. — The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer
They offer the image of Man's Soul in the time while imagination is in abeyance, reason ascendent. — Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre, Voltairine De Cleyre
From then on, she was steadily in the ascendent, not only in John Galbraith's good graces, which was all of course that mattered. — The Real Adventure, Henry Kitchell Webster

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