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n. Alternative spelling of ascendancy.

n. Governing or controlling influence; the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; domination; power.

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

"On the other hand, the Democratic Party of Virginia is very much in ascendency while the Republican Party of Virginia is very much in its descent."

condition    status   

monopoly    ascendant    predomination    prepotency    predominance    supremacy    domination    dominion    absolutism    despotism   

authority    control    dominance    sway    ascendence    prevalence    influence    ascendance    domination    dominion   

ascendancy    dependency    tendency   

ascendancy    supremacy    domination    dominion    dictatorship    predominance    subjection    sway    aggrandizement    primacy