Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as revendication. Imp. Dict.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The act of revendicating.

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  • noun The act of revendicating.

Etymologies

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French revendication.

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Examples

  • CONAREM: Coordination nationale citoyenne pour la revendication de masse, Jean Lesly Préval, Secrétaire à l'organisation

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  • It is true that black slaves were murdered without revendication.

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  • La France fit alors le blocus des côtes, ce qui obligea la cour du Siam à renoncer à toute revendication sur la rive gauche du Mékong tandis que nous gardions en otage les provinces de Chantaboun et de Paknam.

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  • In treating of actions possessoires, M. Troplong is so unfortunate or awkward that he mutilates economy through failure to grasp its meaning "Just as property," he writes, "gave rise to the action for revendication, so possession -- the jus possessionis -- was the cause of possessory interdicts ....

    What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890

  • In treating of _actions possessoires_, M. Troplong is so unfortunate or awkward that he mutilates economy through failure to grasp its meaning "Just as property," he writes, "gave rise to the action for revendication, so possession -- the _jus possessionis_ -- was the cause of possessory interdicts ....

    What is Property? 1837

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