All 4 Uses of
ascend
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- He knelt to say his penance, praying in a corner of the dark nave; and his prayers ascended to heaven from his purified heart like perfume streaming upwards from a heart of white rose.†
Chpt 3
- He had seen himself, a young and silent-mannered priest, entering a confessional swiftly, ascending the altarsteps, incensing, genuflecting, accomplishing the vague acts of the priesthood which pleased him by reason of their semblance of reality and of their distance from it.†
Chpt 4
- Smoke, incense ascending from the altar of the world.†
Chpt 5
- From the floor ascend pillars of dark vapours.†
Chpt 5 *
Definition:
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(ascend as in: ascend the mountain) to move or slope upward -- sometimes figuratively as when climbing the corporate ladder