OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 50886

revanchism

/ɹɪˈvæn(t)ʃɪz(ə)m/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
revanchismo
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.
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