Ascendancy has 4 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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1. | The ascendancy of monarchs is what keeps their subjects from rebellion. | |
2. | He had been completely under his wife's ascendancy. | |
3. | He had been completely under his wife's ascendancy, so much so that, on dying, he left the place to her for her lifetime, as well as the larger part of his income; an arrangement that was distinctly unfair to his two sons. |