Associations to the word «Revanchist»
Noun
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Wiktionary
REVANCHIST, noun. A revanchist person; occasionally, anyone seeking vengeance.
REVANCHIST, adjective. Seeking revenge or otherwise advocating retaliation, especially against a nation which has previously defeated and humiliated the revanchist party in war. Originally referred to the French indignation over losing Alsace-Lorraine to Germany in the Franco-Prussian War.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.