irredentist
See also: Irredentist
English
    
    Etymology
    
From Irredentist.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ɪɹɪˈdɛntɪst/
Noun
    
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, p. 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.
 
 
- 2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, p. 630-1,
Translations
    
adherent of irredentism
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Adjective
    
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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irredentist
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Further reading
    
 Irredentism on  Wikipedia.Wikipedia Irredentism on  Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Dutch
    
    Etymology
    
Borrowed from Italian irredentista.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˌɪ.rə.dɛnˈtɪst/, /ˌɪ.reː.dɛnˈtɪst/
- Hyphenation: ir‧re‧den‧tist
- Rhymes: -ɪst
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