revanchist

American  

[ruh-van-chist, -vahn-shist] / rəˈvæn tʃɪst, -ˈvɑ̃ ʃɪst /

noun

1. an advocate or supporter of a political policy of revanche, especially in order to seek vengeance for a previous military defeat.

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adjective

1. of or relating to a political policy of revanche.

2. of or relating to revanchists or revanchism.

Other Word Forms

• revanchism noun

Etymology

Origin of revanchist

1925–30; < French revanchiste; revanche, -ist

Example Sentences

In a revanchist backlash, music was a balm.

From Los Angeles Times

Santa Fe’s production, titled “Orfeo,” is not intended as a grand revanchist blow against the period-instrument movement that has claimed early music as its own for decades.

From New York Times

And Mr. Scott is an unlikely bearer of his revanchist message.

From New York Times

I was first amused but then annoyed by a reader’s complaint that the words “irredentist” and “revanchist,” at the start of an article about Ukraine, were “so obtuse” that she had to look them up.

From Washington Post

Look no further than the frenzy of revanchist legislation Republicans passed in Florida in just one week.

From Salon