【Ascension】 and 【Ascent】 denote the act of moving upward or the movement upward.

【Ascension】 may occur where there is no implication of effort or difficulty in rising, and where there is usually the suggestion of movement activated by some property in the thing which ascends.

• a balloon 【ascension】

In religious use 【ascension】 refers specifically to the translation of the risen Jesus into heaven.

【Ascent】 , on the other hand, is preferred when there is any implication of effort or of a human agent or operator.

• during their 【ascent】 of the mountain
• the scientists effected an 【ascent】 to the stratosphere
• her rapid 【ascent】 in the social scale
• make an 【ascent】 of three miles in an airplane

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