Difference between Ascendent and Ancestor

What is the difference between Ascendent and Ancestor?

Ascendent as a noun is a person from whom one is descended. while Ancestor as a noun is one from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

Ascendent

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Upward in direction or proclivity.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person from whom one is descended. A position of power or control.

Ancestor

Part of speech: noun

Definition: One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.(Biology) An earlier type; a progenitor(Law) One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.

We hope you now know whether to use Ascendent or Ancestor in your sentence.

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