revanchism
noun/ɹɪˈvæn(t)ʃɪz(ə)m/UK/ɹəˈvɑnt͡ʃɪz(ə)m/US
Etymology
From the French revanche (“revenge”) + -ism, based on revanchisme. By surface analysis, revanche + -ism. Piecewise doublet of revengism.
- derived from revanche
Definitions
The political policy of endeavouring to regain lost territory.
- Fleury had correctly grasped the wisdom of forestalling possible Austrian revanchisme over Lorraine, while France's biggest international problems emanated from England […]
- The EU lobby may have cobbled together institutions for a united states of Europe, but it was a fool's errand, and one that could only play into the hands of German revanchism.
Metaphorical endeavouring to regain lost political or cultural territory.
The neighborhood
- synonymrevanche
- neighborrevanchist
- neighborrevengism
- neighborbellicism
- neighborexpansionism
- neighborimperialism
- neighborirredentism
- neighborjingoism
- neighborwarmongerism
- neighborwar of aggression
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for revanchism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA