irredentist

/irridentist/

  • noun 1 a person advocating the restoration to their country of any territory formerly belonging to it. 2 historical (in 19th-century Italian politics) an advocate of the return to Italy of all Italian-speaking districts subject to other countries.

  — DERIVATIVES irredentism noun.

  — ORIGIN Italian irredentista, from irredenta ‘unredeemed’.

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