All 4 Uses of
ascendancy
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- His hatred, like a powerless though furious wave, was broken against the strong ascendancy which Mercedes exercised over him.†
Chpt 3-4 *
- Franz was less enthusiastic; but the count exercised over him also the ascendency a strong mind always acquires over a mind less domineering.†
Chpt 35-36
- Morrel, subdued by the extraordinary ascendancy Monte Cristo exercised over everything around him, did not endeavor to resist it.†
Chpt 93-94
- The baroness had looked forward to this marriage as a means of ridding her of a guardianship which, over a girl of Eugenie's character, could not fail to be rather a troublesome undertaking; for in the tacit relations which maintain the bond of family union, the mother, to maintain her ascendancy over her daughter, must never fail to be a model of wisdom and a type of perfection.†
Chpt 99-100
Definition:
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(ascendancy) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another