ascensive

[ uh-sen-siv ]

adjective

1. ascending; ascending; rising.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ascensive¹

First recorded in 1640–50; ascens(ion) + -ive

Example Sentences

Earning a doctorate, too often a form of intellectual hazing, confers ascensive status, not teaching ability.

From Washington Post

What is the ascensive power of an area of atmosphere of 100°?

From Project Gutenberg

The flying-machine, which scientific engineers have so long been trying to produce, will probably be quite independent of balloons, and will depend for its ascensive powers on the action of air on oblique surfaces.

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The vapors were of a violet-gray color and seemingly very dense, for, although endowed with an almost inconceivably powerful ascensive force, they retained to the zenith their rounded summits.

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Grace in the heart is an ascensive power, ever lifting its desires upward and upward, and so above the temptations of time and earth.

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