ascendancy

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And here in the United States, a recurring theme of the Gingrich Ascendancy is that this or that Federal Government program should be turned over to the states.

From Time Magazine Archive

For she pleas’d the King of Kings: In short, she had such an Ascendancy over him, that he didn’t scruple in publick to own her as his Wife.

From Zadig Or, The Book of Fate by Voltaire

Ascendancy, then, in the old sense, is a thing of the past.

From The Framework of Home Rule by Childers, Erskine

When it is inclined to rain the Salt will swell, and sink the Scale, when the Weather is growing fair, the brass Weight will regain its Ascendancy.

From The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience by Claridge, John

There is the philosophical view, represented by Edgar Gardiner Murphy's "The Basis of Ascendancy."

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various