English

Noun

Irredentist ‎(plural Irredentists)

1. A member or supporter of the Italian party after 1878 which called for the recovery of all Italian-speaking territories subject to other countries.

English

Noun

irredentist ‎(plural irredentists)

1. Someone who calls for the seizure or recovery of territories or states currently subject to other countries; an adherent of irredentism.
   • 2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, p. 630-1,

     As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators.

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Adjective

irredentist ‎(comparative more irredentist, superlative most irredentist)

1. Of or relating to irredentists or their policies.
   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 126:

     In 1885, a Bulgarian irredentist movement seized control of neighbouring Ottoman-ruled Eastern Roumelia and announced the creation of a Greater Bulgaria.

Related terms

• irredentism
• irredentistic

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