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‖ revanche|rəvɑ̃ʃ|
[Fr.]
Requital, revenge; the giving of like for like; spec. a nation's policy of securing the return of lost territory.
1858Queen Victoria Let. 22 June in R. Fulford Dearest Child (1964) 117 She never allows a word to be said against Leopold who in revanche is much kinder to her than he was. 1870G. Meredith Let. 9 Oct. (1970) I. 427 You great-mindedly took my criticism, and I long for the revanche of giving praise. 1889M. S. Van de Velde Cosmopolitan Recoll. I. v. 162 He [sc. Prince Gortchakoff] has on his record the fate of Sleswig and of Denmark; Sadowa, the revanche of Sebastopol. 1894G. du Maurier Trilby III. viii. 157 When they come back from La Revanche, may Madame Cantharidi..welcome the returning heroes. 1895M. Corelli Sorrows of Satan X. 108 Meanwhile I was surrounded by the rest of the men, all of them repeating the Viscount's suggestion of a ‘revanche’. 1914G. B. Shaw in New Statesman 14 Nov. (Suppl.) 20/1 France had given up hope of her Alsace–Lorraine revanche. 1919J. M. Keynes Econ. Consequences of Peace (1920) iii. 32 Each guarantee that was taken, by increasing irritation and thus the probability of a subsequent Revanche by Germany, made necessary yet further provisions to crush. 1930H. G. Wells Autocracy of Mr. Parham iv. ii. 285 An unhoped for revanche offered itself plainly and clearly to the German people. 1934B. Russell Freedom & Organization 1814–1914 xxxii. 495 He [sc. the Kaiser] caused England to join France and Russia, thereby encouraging Germany's enemies everywhere, awaking in France renewed hope of the revanche. 1939A. J. Toynbee Study of Hist. IV. 118 The Justinianean revanche, in the sixth century, against the Vandals and the Ostrogoths. a1943R. G. Collingwood Idea of Hist. (1946) 169 History is regarded not only as a possible and legitimate form of knowledge but as the only genuine knowledge that exists or can exist. But this revanche not only fails in doing justice to natural science, it also misunderstands history. 1958Listener 10 July 57/1 In 1914..France wanted Revanche. |