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dominance [ˈdɒmɪnəns] n
control; ascendancy ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
dominance noun control, government, power, rule, authority, command, sway, domination, supremacy, mastery, ascendancy, paramountcy They're unpopular for their dominance over the community. Translations dominance [ˈdɒmɪnəns] N 1. (= supremacy) [of person] → dominio m (over sobre) [of class, nation] → dominio m, dominación f (over sobre) 2. (= predominance) → predominio m 3. (Bio, Ecol) [of gene, species, male] → dominancia f dominance [ˈdɒmɪnəns] n (= supremacy) → domination f dominance over sb → domination sur qn to maintain its dominance [company, country, team] → maintenir sa domination dominance dominance [ˈdɒmɪnəns] n (influence) → influenza; (pre-eminence) → predominio dominance [ˈdɒmɪnəns] n (influence) → influenza; (pre-eminence) → predominio How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| At first Edgar Caswall was courteous and polite, even thoughtful; but after a little while, when he found her resistance to his domination grow, he abandoned all forms of self-control and appeared in the same dominance as he had previously shown. In these two romantic natures was manifest in a signal way that neglected phenomenon, the dominance of the sexual element in all the relations of life, strengthening, softening, and beautifying even those of consanguinity. It was his fortune to uphold, largely by the strength of his personality, the pseudo-classical ideals which Dryden and Addison had helped to form and whose complete dominance had contributed to Pope's success, in the period when their authority was being undermined by the progress of the rising Romantic Movement. |
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