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irredentist|ɪrɪˈdɛntɪst|
[ad. It. irredentista, f. (Italia) irredenta unredeemed, unrecovered (Italy).]
In Italian politics (after 1878), an adherent of the party which advocated the recovery and union to Italy of all Italian-speaking districts subject to other countries. Also in extended use (see prec.). Also attrib. as adj.
1882Standard 4 Aug. 5/7 Irredentist outrage and riot at Trieste. 1883Times 27 Sept. 3 The editor of the Irredentist journal Alba. 1887Edin. Rev. Apr. 405 Capponi..was not an out-and-out Irredentist clamouring for Trieste and Istria, the Canton Ticino, Nice, Corsica, and Malta. 1919G. B. Shaw Peace Conf. Hints vi. 75 The French and Italian Jingos have been..making no secret of their determination to annex parts of the Rhineland and the Austrian Tyrol..without regard to the irredentist movements which must follow such annexations. 1920[see crab v.2 2 b]. 1958G. Mikes East is East 28 Naturally, I instinctively sympathised with Hungary and became a staunch irredentist at the age of six or so. Later..some subversive older friends assured me that irredentism was wrong. 1961Listener 21 Sept. 411/1 The extremist parties [in the German Federal Republic] representing communist, neo-nazi, and irredentist tendencies. 1972D. Dakin Unification of Greece v. 73 The bolder irredentists in Greece had taken the field. |