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ascendant
'ascendant' - used as an adjective
1. tending or directed upward
rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage
2. most powerful or important or influential
the economically ascendant class

'ascendant' - used as a noun
3. position or state of being dominant or in control
that idea was in the ascendant
4. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
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