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revanchist

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re⋅vanch⋅ist

  [ruh-van-chist, -vahn-shist]
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–noun
1. an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, esp. in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.
–adjective
2. of or pertaining to a political policy of revanche.
3. of or pertaining to revanchists or revanchism.
Origin:
1925–30; < F revanchiste; see revanche, -ist

Related forms:
re⋅vanch⋅ism, noun
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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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