different between irredentist vs revanchist

English

Etymology

From Irredentist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????d?nt?st/

Noun

irredentist (plural irredentists)

1. Someone who calls for the seizure or recovery of territories or states currently subject to other countries; an adherent of irredentism.
   • 2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, p. 630-1,

     As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators.

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Adjective

irredentist (comparative more irredentist, superlative most irredentist)

1. Of or relating to irredentists or their policies.
   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 126:

     In 1885, a Bulgarian irredentist movement seized control of neighbouring Ottoman-ruled Eastern Roumelia and announced the creation of a Greater Bulgaria.

Related terms

• irredentism
• irredentistic

Translations

Further reading

• Irredentism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• interstride

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian irredentista.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.r?.d?n?t?st/, /??.re?.d?n?t?st/
• Hyphenation: ir?re?den?tist
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

irredentist m (plural irredentisten)

1. irredentist

Related terms

• irredentisme
• irredentistisch

English

Etymology

From French revanchiste, from revanche (“revenge”) +? -ist.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???væn(t)??st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???v?n(t)??st/

Noun

revanchist (plural revanchists)

1. A revanchist person; occasionally, anyone seeking vengeance.

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Adjective

revanchist (not comparable)

1. Seeking revenge or otherwise advocating retaliation, especially against a nation which has previously defeated and humiliated the revanchist party in war. Originally referred to the French indignation over losing Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in the Franco-Prussian War.

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Related terms

• revanche
• revanchism