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revanchist, n. and a.|rɛˈvænʃɪst, -ɑː-|
[f. prec. + -ist: cf. Fr. revanchiste (also used).]
A. n. One who seeks reprisal or revenge; spec. one who seeks to avenge the defeat of Germany in the war of 1939–45.
B. adj. Pertaining to or characterized by a policy of reprisal or revenge. Also revanˈchistic.
1926Scots Observer 13 Nov. 19/1 A Germany contented, satisfied, and prosperous would pay her debt and achieve a bloodless but a complete victory. It is France's policy that the sores be kept open even if they give a handle to Monarchist revanchists. 1953Ann. Reg. 1952 195 The creation in Western Germany of hired forces of revanchistes under the command of Hitlerite generals. 1954Times 5 Mar. 6/4 ‘Then their real aims will be revealed as well as their aggressive, revanchist calculations,’ Mr. Molotov added... The Soviet Foreign Minister said the Adenauer Government was now ‘the mainstay of the west German revanchists who want to clear the road to the resurgence of German militarism’. 1955N.Y. Times 10 May 28/1 Far from being an instrument of either ‘American aggressors’ or ‘German revanchists’ (as Soviet propaganda would picture it), the North Atlantic alliance is entirely a defensive organization. 1959Times 30 Mar. 5/4 Austria had undertaken to prohibit all Fascist and ‘revanchist’ organizations, and to wipe out all remaining traces of the Nazis. 1960Guardian 25 Oct. 7/2 Revanchist speeches were being made..on the borders of Czechoslovakia. 1961Evening Bull. (Philadelphia) 24 Aug. 1/8 Air corridors were set aside for the three Western Powers to insure the needs of their military garrisons, and not for subversive and revanchist (revenge-seeking) purposes. 1961Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Nov. 815/4 Between the wars the Hungarians were only revisionists. No one labelled them as revenge-seekers and the communists had surely not yet invented that bastard word ‘revanchist’. 1965New Statesman 19 Mar. 432/1, I asked a prominent East German lawyer why, rather than sneer about ‘revanchists’, they did not support this attempt to convict Nazi criminals. 1965Listener 16 Dec. 983/2 East German propaganda would say it [sc. living in West Germany] meant living under ‘a state-monopolistic revanchistic militarist regime’. 1967Ibid. 3 Aug. 155/3 When journalists and scholars..label Israeli revanchistes ‘Jewish fascists’, it's apparent that such tastelessness is even less bearable in non-fiction. 1968Daily Tel. 1 Nov. 34/3 The statement referred also to the ‘revanchist and expansionist forces in control in Bonn’. 1973Guardian 19 Oct. 14/6 Not terrorists but revanchist states were the greater threat [to Israel]. 1976T. Allbeury Only Good German xiii. 94 A sabotage team operating against the Warsaw Pact countries..supported by the CIA and West German revanchists. 1977Time 7 Feb. 15/3 O'Brien supports a referendum to amend the Irish constitution to remove its revanchist claim on Ulster.
Hence reˈvanchism, a policy of seeking reprisal or revenge.
1954Times 5 Mar. 6/4 (heading) Mr. Molotov on German ‘Revanchism’. 1957Wall Street Jrnl. 6 Dec. 6/5 The struggle against West German militarism and revanchism (seeking for revenge), which are now threatening peace, is a vital task facing the peace-loving forces of the German people and all the nations of Europe. 1959Listener 3 Sept. 344/2 The aim of this offer is to take the edge off accusations of revanchism. 1960Guardian 7 Dec. 32/6 Developments in Germany do not go unscanned for signs of militarism and revanchism. 1971Listener 7 Jan. 5/2 If imperialist aggression and German revanchism cease to be credible threats, what grounds are there for maintaining Soviet garrisons in satellite countries? 1974Times 19 Feb. (European Defence Suppl.) p. ii/7 There is a body of opinion which holds that the Russians are looking more in the direction of the Bundeswehr, prompted by an undying fear of German revanchism. |