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Meanings of revanchist in English

Russian
реваншизм
Portuguese
revanchismo
Spanish
revanchismo
Catalan
revanchisme

Term to describe a political manifestation of the will to reverse territorial losses.

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        реваншизм
        Usage of revanchist in English
        1
        Many of the interwar Tories had strong reservations about his revanchist, racist, imperialist politics.
        The Guardian
        2
        So it is not spiteful or revanchist to remember.
        The Irish Times
        3
        In some kind of revanchist frenzy, paramilitaries attacked ambulances, shattered windows and cut off intravenous drips.
        The Guardian
        4
        Then there is Sharif's continuing obsession with wooing India, despite the revanchist Modi government in New Delhi.
        The Guardian
        5
        Quotes the revanchist texts on American society.
        The new yorker
        6
        Whether these hard times will mellow his external ambitions or fuel further revanchist adventurism is now a key question.
        The Guardian
        7
        The Russian president's revanchist aggression in Ukraine has left his regime more vulnerable than anyone in the Kremlin would dare admit.
        The Irish Times
        8
        Either way, missile defenses would not have been fetishized by American conservatives and Russian revanchists.
        The new yorker
        Translations for revanchist
        Portuguese
        revanchismo
        Revanchist through the time