Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The political policy of endeavouring to regain lost territory.
Etymologies
- From French revanchisme. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“revanchism," or taking back the political, moral, and economic ground at the country's core.”
“I'm pretty sure this is a reason I like Sons of Anarchy; I'm all about the revanchism, mothafucka.”
“Walk a mile in Muslim sandals, and it's no surprise to find rage and revanchism.”
The Huffington Post: Clay Farris Naff: A Moment Of Opportunity For Muslims
“Indeed, after the August coup, anxiety in many republics had come to focus on the prospect of Great Russian revanchism.”
“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.”
“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.”
“As long as right wing Southern revanchism keeps a veto on any possible betterment of the national direction, the struggle will continue to be at the nitwit level, which is what they want.”
“But the extrapolation of this momentary Russian aggression into a grand theory of revanchism -- Ukraine's next!”
“Crucial to this plan was reasonably generous treatment of the defeated Germany—both to forestall feelings of bitterness and revanchism that might poison postwar international relations, and to restrain the Old Diplomatic ambitions of Britain and France.”
“He failed, and in the process helped ensure that the very things he feared most—revanchism and future war—would come to pass.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘revanchism’.
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Collected Words - List 2
I've been saving these words FOR YEARS. Now, I've found Wordie
gasconade, zaccheus, spoor, precentor, bombazine, otiose, khamsin, bruited, viva voce, whilom, lenitive, ebullition and 244 more...
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words that make me happy inside
amanuensis, inamorata, armigerous, yurt, fugacious, ephemeral, gambit, defenestration, orotund, toper, teuchter, apostasy and 90 more...
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annscann's list
My words, generally
bavarois, bawbee, bawd, bawdry, libertine, russophobe, rubicund, gossamer, persnickety, claptrap, gesticulate, schadenfreudian and 199 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 889 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, R
retinol, rectory, rhubarb, rancor, recension, rood, redivivus, roborate, redound, ripsnorting, ragtag, recruit and 250 more...
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Economist
excoriate, Panglossian, malefactor, sclerotic, insouciance, revanchism, hegemony, haughty, oenophilia, ethereal, inveterate, Sisyphean and 28 more...
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n0r1's Words
orthogonal, recalcitrant, truculent, callipygous, edacious, administrativa, bile, assy, badassitude, craptastic, coruscate, yonic and 9 more...
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Politik
revanchism, irredentist, kakistocracy, kleptocracy, plutocracy, ratfuck, hansard, filibuster, earmark, gulag, oligarchy, confederation and 10 more...
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Miscellanea
Pretty words. Words I really, really like.
causerie, persiflage, prickmedainty, chanteuse, menstruum, deliquesce, coruscant, umber, radiatrix, zoopsia, diamanté, desex and 50 more...
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Discoveries
Words I've recently learned.
demiurgic, enfilade, filigree, pyriform, repoussé, eosin, perambulate, hirsute, hansel, presbyopia, oleaginous, floccinaucinihili... and 15 more...
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taber's Words
confluence, interregnum, obstreperous, allodial, anfractuous, priapic, curmur, peripatetic, irredentism, revanchism, deracinate, prolix and 43 more...
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R
ramify, recondite, redoubtable, refusenik, revet, revetment, rodomontade, reliquary, rugose, recherché, retrodict, roi fainéant and 22 more...
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Political Terms
revanchism, emigre, fatwa, politburo, realpolitik, monetarism, troika
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