Ascension synonyms and antonyms

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rising
The act or process of a person or thing that rises; esp., an uprising; revolt; insurrection
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Ascension of Christ
(New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection
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upgang
(UK dialectal) The act of ascending a slope; ascent.
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upslope
An upward slope.
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Ascension of the Lord
(Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter
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ascending
the act of changing location in an upward direction
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upleap
(Intransitive) To leap up; spring up.
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upsurgence
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vernal-equinox (related)
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duat (related)
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climb
An act of climbing; an ascent:
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rise (related)
The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
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ascent
The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; rising grade.
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ascension-day
The 40th day after Easter, on which the Christian feast of the Ascension is observed.
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fall (antonym)
A marked, often sudden, decline in status, rank, or importance:
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upsweep
To sweep or curve upward
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upgrowth
Anything produced by this
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uprisal
(Archaic) An uprising.
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uprush
An upwards rush.
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climbing
(Uncountable) The sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another object using available holds, generally with the safety of a rope and belayer.
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decline (antonym)
A period of decline
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declension (antonym)
(Linguistics) In certain languages, the inflection of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives with respect to categories such as case, number, and gender.
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descendancy (antonym)
going up
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descending (antonym)
going up
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RA_J2000 (related)
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  • It is held forty days after Easter, or ten days before Whitsunday, in celebration of Christ's ascension into heaven forty days after the resurrection.

  • In 1900 direct telegraph working was established between London and Genoa, and a third cable was laid to South Africa via St Helena and Ascension.

  • Bessel's practice was to unclamp in declination, lower and read off the head, and then restore the telescope to its former declination reading, the clockwork meanwhile following the stars in right ascension.

  • These shells do not retain their individuality at depths greater than 1400 or 1500 fathoms, and in fact pteropod ooze is only found in small patches on the ridges near the Azores, Antilles, Canaries, Sokotra, Nicobar, Fiji and the Paumotu islands, and on the central rise of the South Atlantic between Ascension and Tristan d'Acunha.

  • The word ascensio, adopted in the West, implies the ascension of Christ by his own power, in contradistinction to the assumptio, or taking up into heaven of the Virgin Mary by the power of God.

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