Revanchist

Quick meaning: Revanchist is a noun meaning A revanchist person; occasionally, anyone seeking vengeance.

Meaning

A revanchist person; occasionally, anyone seeking vengeance.

More Meanings

1. 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.

Example Sentences

What remains is an elegant brief history of the modern conservative movement, as unsparing in its critique of liberal hubris as of revanchist resentment.

Mr. Murphy tracks shifts in Justice Scalia's approach and what differentiates it from those of other textual revanchists, whether Justice Clarence Thomas or the legal scholar Robert Bork.

Bannon, they proclaimed, was Trumpism in its distilled essence: revanchist, ahistorical, racially inflected, and consumed with an imaginary war on the media and America’s broader society.

The next day, newspapers across the political spectrum will express varying degrees of outrage at the president's discourtesy, ignorance, and lack of style; one will accuse him of being a revanchist.

Word Forms

• revanchists

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include revengism, revictimizer, retributionist, revolutionist, revolutionary, reviler.

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