revanchism

British  

/ rɪˈvæntʃɪzəm /

noun

1. a foreign policy aimed at revenge or the regaining of lost territories

2. desire or support for such a policy

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Other Word Forms

• revanchist noun

Etymology

Origin of revanchism

C20: from French revanche _revenge

Example Sentences

Her warnings about Russian revanchism had gone largely unheeded, even after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, she said.

From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2023

“The West did not take sufficient account of the strength of Soviet myth, military sacrifice and revanchism in him,” Eltchaninoff, whose grandparents were all Russian, said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2022

War revanchism usually takes place after wars end – the KKK after the first world war, for example, or the radicalisation of white supremacism after Vietnam.

From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2019

What Clark achieves with this blend is nothing less than an up-to-date vision of the new, weird America, a South in which the passions aren’t those of historical revanchism but of intimate terrors and thwarted dreams.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2016

But for resentment to turn into revanchism — an active policy of reconquest — requires opportunity.

From Washington Post • Aug. 27, 2015