Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The system or political program of the Irredentists.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related.
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- noun A
doctrine advocating annexation of foreign lands by a country withhistoric orethnic links.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related
Etymologies
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Examples
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Imagine - short of actual, genuine irredentism, that is - continental countries spilling over into their neighbours on each other's maps the way the Hulk bursts out of his t-shirts (2).
Strange Maps 2008
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This being said irredentism and the idea that apostasy to any religion is an affront to Allah do not contradict those points.
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And thus, with one line, Jeff Singer connects the dots between the Vietnam dolchstoss legend and Likud irredentism, creating the perfect multicultural self-parody of right-wing asshattery.
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Under Nasser, Egyptian nationalism was built on little more than pan-Arab irredentism and anti-Western and anti-Israeli sentiment.
Assuaging Israel's Egypt Anxiety Andre Aciman 2011
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I am starting to feel a sort of anti-irredentism for California.
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And we offered the Soviet Union an opportunity to participate in a new security system based on a changed North Atlantic Alliance, seeking to address legitimate concerns with respect, so as to limit the likelihood of future irredentism.
Robert B. Zoellick: Lessons of German Unification Robert B. Zoellick 2010
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And we offered the Soviet Union an opportunity to participate in a new security system based on a changed North Atlantic Alliance, seeking to address legitimate concerns with respect, so as to limit the likelihood of future irredentism.
Robert B. Zoellick: Lessons of German Unification Robert B. Zoellick 2010
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I joined the throngs and filed through the labyrinthine chambers and catacombs, past storyboards of a hippopotamus hunt, fowling in the marshes, dwarfs making jewelry, scenes of fishing, gardening, and farming, an ancient catalogue of harmonic balance that reverses the telescope from today's hardships and irredentism.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
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And we offered the Soviet Union an opportunity to participate in a new security system based on a changed North Atlantic Alliance, seeking to address legitimate concerns with respect, so as to limit the likelihood of future irredentism.
Robert B. Zoellick: Lessons of German Unification Robert B. Zoellick 2010
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I joined the throngs and filed through the labyrinthine chambers and catacombs, past storyboards of a hippopotamus hunt, fowling in the marshes, dwarfs making jewelry, scenes of fishing, gardening, and farming, an ancient catalogue of harmonic balance that reverses the telescope from today's hardships and irredentism.
Richard Bangs: Quest for the Lord of the Nile, Part II Richard Bangs 2011
vanishedone commented on the word irredentism
Strange Maps: 'Irredentism, i.e. the desire to annex territory based on historical and/or ethnic grounds, gets its name from Italia irredenta, a term to describe territories held by the Austro-Hungarian empire between the unification of Italy and the end of the First World War, and claimed by Italy.'
November 3, 2008