单词 | revanche |
释义 | revanchen. 1. The action or an act of returning a favour or (now chiefly) avenging an injury; requital, recompense; revenge, retaliation. in revanche: in return; in revenge; cf. en revanche adv. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > retributive punishment > [noun] wrakec825 wrechec1175 yielda1200 wrakedomc1275 vengeancea1300 hevening1303 vengement1338 wreakc1340 rewardc1350 retributiona1425 revengeancec1480 wratha1500 revengementa1513 avengeance1535 avenge1568 ultion1575 venge1587 wreck1591 nemesis1597 revanche1615 vindict1639 vindication1647 the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] wrakec825 wrackc900 wrechec1175 yielda1200 wrakedomc1275 vengeancea1300 vengement1338 awreaking1340 rewardc1350 revengeancec1480 wratha1500 avengementa1513 revengementa1513 revengea1525 avengeance1535 avenge1568 requital1569 ultion1575 venge1587 wreck1591 revanche1615 vindict1639 payback1973 the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > [noun] > as a policy revanche1615 revanchism1951 1615 in Lett. & St. Papers James VI 271 Having the raisons I had against hym and thos advantages off revanche , mony vood a extenditt them mor vigourously nor I did. ?1656 R. Flecknoe Relation Ten Years Trav. xxxi. 100 In revanche of which I can assure her Highnesse, that none ever having gain'd in prize some precious Jewell, was more carefull to conserve it, than I shall be the honour of her good Graces. 1757 T. Smollett Reprisal ii. xv Madame, I implore your pitie and clemence; Monsieur Artlie, I am one pauvre miserable not worth your revanche. 1794 I. D'Israeli Domest. Anecd. French Nation 300 We may, if it is worth the while, take our revanche, on our once gay rivals. 1828 New Monthly Mag. 23 148 The defeated party had their revanche; the Prima Donna was tried for corruption, on their appeal. 1858 Queen Victoria Let. 22 June in Dearest Child (1964) 117 She never allows a word to be said against Leopold who in revanche is much kinder to her than he was. 1870 G. Meredith Let. 9 Oct. (1970) I. 427 You great-mindedly took my criticism, and I long for the revanche of giving praise. 1968 V. Nabokov King, Queen, Knave xiii. 262 I'll have my revanche when madame and you visit me in Miami next spring. 2007 P. Leonard & A. Grenier in T. Owen Reconstructing Postmodernism vi. 94 Gender Stalinists killed masculinity in revanche for the death of femininity under the rule of traditionalists. 2. Politics. Also with capital initial. The return of a nation's lost territory; a policy, movement, or act of aggression aimed at achieving this. Now chiefly historical.Frequently with reference to the desire of France to regain the province of Alsace-Lorraine after its annexation in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. ΚΠ 1874 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 419 A little talk..about the prospects of France, the duties of Frenchmen, and the question of the ‘revanche’. 1889 M. S. van de Velde Cosmopolitan Recoll. I. v. 162 He [sc. Prince Gortchakoff] has on his record the fate of Sleswig and of Denmark; Sadowa, the revanche of Sebastopol. 1914 G. B. Shaw in New Statesman 14 Nov. (Suppl.) 20/1 France had given up hope of her Alsace–Lorraine revanche. 1939 A. Toynbee Study of Hist. IV. 118 The Justinianean revanche, in the sixth century, against the Vandals and the Ostrogoths. 1993 D. A. Welch Justice & Genesis of War (1995) iv. 104 Although revanche was extremely popular, few in France relished the prospect of the cost in blood and tears. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1615 |
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