irredentist
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See also: Irredentist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Irredentist.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]irredentist (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
[edit]adherent of irredentism
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Adjective
[edit]irredentist (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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Further reading
[edit]- Irredentism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian irredentista.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]irredentist m (plural irredentisten)
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