Definitions

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  • noun The political policy of endeavouring to regain lost territory.

Etymologies

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From French revanchisme.

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Examples

  • "revanchism," or taking back the political, moral, and economic ground at the country's core.

    WORLDMag.com Edward E. Plowman 2009

  • I'm pretty sure this is a reason I like Sons of Anarchy; I'm all about the revanchism, mothafucka.

    giftmas christs intertribal 2009

  • Indeed, after the August coup, anxiety in many republics had come to focus on the prospect of Great Russian revanchism.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Indeed, after the August coup, anxiety in many republics had come to focus on the prospect of Great Russian revanchism.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Despite such revanchism, in the spring of 2009 Hamid declared another amnesty, this time pardoning some 170 prisoners who had been charged with endangering national security, including 35 Shias on trial for allegedly trying to overthrow the government.

    Iran's Bahraini Ambitions Mitchell A. Belfer 2011

  • Walk a mile in Muslim sandals, and it's no surprise to find rage and revanchism.

    Clay Farris Naff: A Moment Of Opportunity For Muslims Clay Farris Naff 2011

  • Indeed, after the August coup, anxiety in many republics had come to focus on the prospect of Great Russian revanchism.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Walk a mile in Muslim sandals, and it's no surprise to find rage and revanchism.

    Clay Farris Naff: A Moment Of Opportunity For Muslims Clay Farris Naff 2011

  • Indeed, after the August coup, anxiety in many republics had come to focus on the prospect of Great Russian revanchism.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • Uninterested in any kind of balanced view, Senator Obama sounds exactly like a classic European nationalist, decrying the historic ills inflicted upon his own volk, blaming all of their problems on the crimes of others, denying that anyone has ever done them a good turn, and implicitly justifying a mood of revanchism.

    Stromata Blog: 2008

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