Ascension synonyms

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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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rising
The act or process of a person or thing that rises; esp., an uprising; revolt; insurrection
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upslope
An upward slope.
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ascending
the act of changing location in an upward direction
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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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upleap
(Intransitive) To leap up; spring up.
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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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upgang
(UK dialectal) The act of ascending a slope; ascent.
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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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upsurgence
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vernal-equinox (related)
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duat (related)
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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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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.

  • The insertion of the alien matter 7-12 between 1-5 and 13-17 may be due to our author's wish to show that the expulsion of Satan from heaven after Christ's birth and ascension to heaven was owing in some measure to Christ, although he has allowed Michael's name to remain in the borrowed passage, 7-12 - a fact which shows how dependent the writer was on tradition.

  • 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.

  • Under the hill of Ascension are the remains of a temple, popularly called of Neptune, a very simple Doric structure, which still in its mutilated state presents some peculiarities of architecture.

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