[
US
/əˈsɛnʃən/
]
[ UK /ɐsˈɛnʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɐsˈɛnʃən/ ]
NOUN
- (New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection
- (Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter
How To Use Ascension In A Sentence
- That search, which Corto knows is fruitless, reconciles the sublimation of the motivating object with the euphemistic cynicism of a horizontal and not ascensional awareness of the journey.
- The ascension to the throne of a chief or headperson is hereditary.
- The doctor, according to very accurate calculations, found that, including the articles indispensable to his journey and his apparatus, he should have to carry a weight of 4,000 pounds; therefore he had to find out what would be the ascensional force of Five Weeks in a Balloon
- Fardohnya will become the Overlord's through the ascension of a Karien king to the throne. TREASON KEEP
- If America's influence decreases, it'll be the result of the ascension of nations such as China or India.
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- Yet the burden of geography has not changed, while the Russian state has changed profoundly since the ascension of Putin.
- The ascensional force of the new balloon was then about three thousand pounds, and, in adding together the weight of the apparatus, of the passengers, of the stock of water, of the car and its accessories, and putting aboard fifty gallons of water, and one hundred pounds of fresh meat, the doctor got a total weight of twenty-eight hundred and thirty pounds. Five Weeks in a Balloon
- Still today, we keep a special nine-day vigil of prayer called a novena between the Ascension and the coming of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost. Archive 2007-05-01
- After the Ascension the disciples, according to their Lord's instruction, prayed together in the upstairs room where they were staying.