ascensive
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of ascensive
First recorded in 1640–50; ascens(ion) + -ive
Example Sentences
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Earning a doctorate, too often a form of intellectual hazing, confers ascensive status, not teaching ability.
From Washington Post
In Man, the brain presents an ascensive step in development, higher and more strongly marked than that by which the preceding sub-class was distinguished from the one below it.
From The Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell
Does it heat so fast as to keep up the ascensive force without intermission, at twenty-five, or twenty, or ten miles the hour?
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler
His main reliance was on the latent heat supposed to be given out during condensation, for his ascensive storm power.
From The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes by Thomas Belden Butler
Grace in the heart is an ascensive power, ever lifting its desires upward and upward, and so above the temptations of time and earth.
From Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Benj. N. Martin
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