irredentist
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- noun
- /ˌɪrəˈdɛntɪst/
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irredentista
- Similarly, an irredentist region, by separating from one union and joining another, can increase the relative size of its dominant ethnic group.
- irredentist claims
- irredentist wars
Examples
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How could its military commands plan operations if they had to include officers from countries with smoldering irredentist claims against their neighbors?
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Pakistan's claim to Kashmir is irredentist.
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If not resolved, the irredentist rhetoric may lead to actual inter-ethnic violence, an occurrence not uncommon in Central Asia.
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Consequently, three threats remained at the end of the Cold War: the Pakistani irredentist claim to Kashmir, the Chinese capability threat, and internal conflicts.
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One of the more remarkable aspects of modern Iran is how no one entertains irredentist claims to any of the "lost provinces," whether in Africa or Europe, or closer to home in Iraq, Turkmenistan, or Afghanistan.
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The dominant interpretation has long been that Beijing is motivated by nationalism and that the PRC's irredentist claims to Taiwan stem from a broader national discourse of humiliation and weakness.
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The irredentist leader spoke passionately about reclaiming the territory that once belonged to their nation.
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Many historians study the irredentist movement that seeks to restore lands lost in earlier conflicts.
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Political debates often arise when discussing the irredentist aspirations of various nations in the region.
Synonyms
A person who supports adding land to a country or state
How Militant
Surface Forms
Morphology
irredentist = irredentism (opaque) = ir + redent + ist
Although the negative prefix 'ir-' and the agentive suffix '-ist' are formally recognizable, the stem 'redent' is not a productive English base and the political meaning is specialized and not derivable by typical learners.
Etymology
Irredentist comes from the Italian word irredento, which means 'not redeemed' or 'not returned' and was used for lands people wanted back. It uses the same root as redeem ('to take back'), so an irredentist is someone who wants their country to 'take back' land it once had.