Ascension Synonyms and Antonyms

ə-sĕnshən
The act of rising or moving upward
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rise
  2. ascent
  3. ascension-day
  4. rising
  5. upgang
  6. Ascension of the Lord
  7. uprisal
  8. upsurgence
Antonyms:
  1. fall
The act of moving upward on or along
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rise
  2. ascent
  3. rising
  4. climbing
  5. climb
  6. upgrowth
  7. upslope
  8. ascending
  9. uprush
Antonyms:
  1. decline
  2. declension
  3. descendancy
  4. descending
(New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Ascension of Christ
Synonyms:
(Verb)
  1. upleap
  2. upsweep

Ascension Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • If the local sidereal time of the observation is known, the right ascension of the star becomes known by adding the observed hour angle to the sidereal time if the star is west of the meridian, or subtracting it if east of the meridian.

  • Ascension is connected by cable with Europe and Africa, and is visited once a month by mail steamers from the Cape.

  • Add in the ascensional difference to find the oblique ascension.

  • 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.

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