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revanche

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re⋅vanche

  [ruh-vanch, -vahnsh]
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–noun
the policy of a state intent on regaining areas of its original territory that have been lost to other states as a result of war, a treaty signed under duress, etc.
Origin:
1855–60; < F: revenge
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re·vanche   (rə-vänch', -väɴsh')   
n.  

  1. The act of retaliating; revenge.

  2. A usually political policy, as of a nation or an ethnic group, intended to regain lost territory or standing.


[French, from Old French revancher, to revenge : re-, re- + vengier, vencher, to avenge; see revenge.]
re·vanch'ism (-vän'chĭz-əm, -väɴ'shĭz-) n., re·vanch'ist adj. & n., re·vanch·is'tic adj.
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