Ascension
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- noun
- /əˈsɛnʃən/
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Ascensión
- These men, all of them teachers, were arrested after publicly protesting on a national holiday celebrating King Hassan II's ascension to the throne.
Examples
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Therefore, you do not have to create your Ascension.
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I've always got 7 francs for an Ascension.
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Bye-bye Ascension, hello college life in Illinois!
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Resurrection and ascension.
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The ascension of the Scottish King James VI to the throne of England (James I) commenced the strengthening of the religious ideology.
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The ascension is something we've all been looking forward to and we couldn't be happier, so our round-trip from this place and back is, uh... really something to celebrate.
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The Feast of the Ascension gave you the best spectacle of all here, with the gilded galley of the Doge emerging once a year for the marriage of the sea.
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Protestant inroads in Ecuador began only with the ascension of the anticlerical Liberal Party in 1895 under General Eloy Alfaro.
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Grotesque, as well, is the sheer audacity and distortion of the lie, as it transforms what was a violent act of regicide into a glorious, peaceful, loving ascension to divine status.
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The church celebrated the ascension of Christ with a special service on the 40th day after Easter.
Synonyms
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A Christian holiday when people remember Jesus going up to heaven forty days after Easter
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An event when Jesus leaves Earth and goes up to heaven forty days after he comes back to life
A Christian holiday marking Jesus going up to heaven forty days after Easter
A Christian belief about Jesus rising to heaven on the 40th day after he came back to life
Compounds
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An object's eastward angle along the sky's equator used to find its position, shown in hours
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A Christian holiday when people remember Jesus going up to heaven forty days after Easter
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An event when Jesus leaves Earth and goes up to heaven forty days after he comes back to life
A Christian belief about Jesus rising to heaven on the 40th day after he came back to life
A Christian holiday marking Jesus going up to heaven forty days after Easter
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ascension also names the church celebration of that event. It comes from the Latin verb ascendere, which means 'to climb' or 'go up' and is the same root as the everyday word ascend, so the holiday marks Jesus' 'rising up' into heaven forty days after Easter.