Revanchism vs Retaliation - What's the difference?
revanchism | retaliation |
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 .
Violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice.
An act of violent response.
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As nouns the difference between revanchism and retaliation
is that revanchism is the political policy of endeavouring to regain lost territory while retaliation is violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice.revanchism
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(wikipedia revanchism)Alternative forms
*revanchismeNoun
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* revancheretaliation
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