| 释义 |
irredentism|ɪrɪˈdɛntɪz(ə)m|
[See next and -ism.]
The policy or programme of the Irredentists. Also in extended use: any policy of seeking the recovery and reunion to one country of a region or regions for the time being subject to another country.
1883Standard 30 Apr. 5/5 Irredentism is less powerful than the need felt by all the Central European States for mutual peace and safety. 1889Times 25 Apr. 5/3 An estrangement between Austria and Italy would lead to a very swift revival of irredentism in the Italian kingdom. 1922Encycl. Brit. XXX. 314/1 Up to the World War there was actually no articulate irredentism among the Austrian Poles. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 5 May 319/1 Never was ‘irredentism’ so rampant as it is today; and so far as Germans and Magyars are concerned there does not seem much prospect of their reshaping their minds. 1961Listener 21 Dec. 1057/1 The young African states are..learning that they are no more immune than the wicked old nations from the evils of frontier disputes, irredentism, and even ideological differences. 1973Ibid. 20 Dec. 845/3 The seeds of Japanese irredentism, already latent, will begin to sprout. |