Ascendant Definition

Ascendant Sentence Examples

• The former was in the ascendant during the early years of the reign.

• Compelled by illness to leave the fleet, he found on his return to Dort that the Orange party were in the ascendant, and he and his brother were the objects of popular suspicion and hatred.

• The stars are held, not only to prognosticate the future but also to influence it; the child born when Mars is in the ascendant will be war-like; Venus has to do with love; the sign of the Lion presides over places where wild beasts are found.

• Although both abroad and at home his policy had generally embodied the wishes of the ascendant party in the state, Danby had never obtained the confidence of the nation.

• During 1848,, when the extreme party was in the ascendant, Mommsen supported the monarchy against the Republicans.