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n. See ascendance, etc.

n. the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

"Dawkins style atheism was in ascendence during the 19th century with its mechanistic view of the universe and the "progress" of mankind."

condition    status   

monopoly    ascendant    predomination    prepotency    predominance    supremacy    domination    dominion    absolutism    despotism