irredentist
See also: Irredentist
English
editEtymology
editFrom Irredentist.
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editNoun
editirredentist (plural irredentists)
- Someone who calls for the seizure or recovery of territories or states currently subject to other countries; an adherent of irredentism.
- 2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, pages 630–1:
- As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators.
Translations
editadherent of irredentism
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Adjective
editirredentist (comparative more irredentist, superlative most irredentist)
- Of or relating to irredentists or their policies.
- 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 126:
- In 1885, a Bulgarian irredentist movement seized control of neighbouring Ottoman-ruled Eastern Roumelia and announced the creation of a Greater Bulgaria.
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editirredentist
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Further reading
edit- Irredentism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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editDutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Italian irredentista.
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editNoun
editirredentist m (plural irredentisten)
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