irredentistn.
/ɪrɪˈdɛntɪst/ In Italian politics (after 1878), an adherent of the party which advocated the recovery and union to Italy of all Italian-speaking districts subject to other countries. Also in extended use (see irredentism n.). Also attributive as adj.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [noun] > other specific policies or advocacy of > supporter of
common holder1565
abolitionist1827
governmentalist1831
destructive1832
annexationist1841
destructionist1841
annexionist1844
decompositionist1849
expansionist1862
disintegrator1865
dissolutionist1882
irredentist1882
disintegrationist1884
isolationist1899
retentionist1899
free fooder1903
laissez-fairist1932
autarkist1938
elitist1938
neo-isolationist1950
non-aligner1963
1882 Standard 4 Aug. 5/7 Irredentist outrage and riot at Trieste.
1883 Times 27 Sept. 3 The editor of the Irredentist journal Alba.
1887 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 405 Capponi..was not an out-and-out Irredentist clamouring for Trieste and Istria, the Canton Ticino, Nice, Corsica, and Malta.
1919 G. B. Shaw Peace Conf. Hints vi. 75 The French and Italian Jingos have been..making no secret of their determination to annex parts of the Rhineland and the Austrian Tyrol..without regard to the irredentist movements which must follow such annexations.
1920 Glasgow Herald 18 Aug. 7 Posen contains a large German Irredentist minority, which might crab the Polish military defence.
1958 G. Mikes East is East 28 Naturally, I instinctively sympathised with Hungary and became a staunch irredentist at the age of six or so. Later..some subversive older friends assured me that irredentism was wrong.
1961 Listener 21 Sept. 411/1 The extremist parties [in the German Federal Republic] representing communist, neo-nazi, and irredentist tendencies.
1972 D. Dakin Unification of Greece v. 73 The bolder irredentists in Greece had taken the field.
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