revanchism
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- noun
- /rɪˈvænʧɪzəm/
- Formal
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revanchismo
- In the aftermath of the war, the country's revanchism led to demands for the return of annexed lands.
- Russian revanchism
Examples
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Worse still, all of this lays the groundwork for revanchism and large imbalances and convulsions, as is by now quite evident.
Academic text (1994) -
Therefore, South Africa had to confront how to permit the creation of democratic political structures and the inevitable emergence of black majority rule while allaying the fears of the white minority that this "democracy" would simply be the code for racial revanchism.
Academic text (2004) -
Also, the media mistakenly frames cultural conflict since the 1970s as entirely the result of fundamentalist revanchism.
Academic text (2002) -
Sebald's polemical essay on the Allied air war poses similar problems of classification, though not for the reason of German revanchism that many reviewers feared.
Academic text (2003) -
These were temporarily believed by their peoples for instrumental purposes to justify their aggressive revanchisms and violent addressing and settling of older tribal scores.
Blog text (8) -
-- Coaffee, J. 2005. Urban Renaissance in the Age of Terrorism: Revanchism, Automated Social Control or the End of Reflection? International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29(2): 447-454.
Academic text (2009) -
Local communist leaders could not withdraw their recognition of Soviet authority due to strategic considerations whereby "a potential collapse of Poland would leave East Germany and Czechoslovakia exposed to West German revanchism" (Crump 2015, 33).
Academic text (2018) -
The politician's speeches were driven by revanchism, as he spoke passionately about regaining lost honor.
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Many historians argue that a sense of revanchism fueled the conflicts in the region throughout the 20th century.
Synonyms
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A political belief that a country should get back land it once had
A political idea that a country should take back land where people share its culture or past
Antonyms
How Aggressive
Surface Forms
Morphology
revanchism = revanchist (opaque) = revanch + ism
The term is a borrowing from French built on the combining form 'revanch-' plus '-ism'; neither the combining form nor a familiar English base is recognizable to an average B1 learner, so the meaning cannot be reliably derived from its parts.
Etymology
Revanchism comes from the French revanche, which means 'revenge', and the ending -ism means a 'belief' or 'policy'. So revanchism describes a political idea of trying to take back lost land or power as an act of revenge.