Revanchism - What does it mean?
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The political policy of endeavouring to regain lost territory.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 233:
*:Fleury had correctly grasped the wisdom of forestalling possible Austrian revanchisme over Lorraine, while France's biggest international problems emanated form England [...].
*2011 , (Simon Jenkins), The Guardian , 10 Nov 2011:
*:The EU lobby may have cobbled together institutions for a united states of Europe, but it was a fool's errand, and one that could only play into the hands of German revanchism .