Both Uses of
ascendancy
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- With all the boldness of an original genius, he had struck out an entirely new course of treatment quite opposed to the usual method; his custom being, when he had gained the ascendancy over those he took in hand, rather to keep them down than to give them their own way; and to exercise his vivacity upon them openly, and without reserve.†
Chpt 19 *
- Such was the ascendancy he had acquired over his dupe, and such the latter's general habit of submission, that, for the moment, the young man seemed half afraid to pursue the subject.†
Chpt 50
Definition:
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(ascendancy) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another