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ascendant

adjective
  1. most powerful or important or influential
    “the economically ascendant class”
    dominating
  2. tending or directed upward
    “rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage- John Ruskin”
    ascendentascensive
noun
  1. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
    antecedent
  2. position or state of being dominant or in control
    “that idea was in the ascendant”
    ascendent