noun
- people who advocate for a policy of seeking to regain lost territory or status, especially through revenge or retaliation
Usage: political term; often refers to those seeking to recover territory lost in war
Examples
- The revanchists called for military action to reclaim the disputed border region.
- Political revanchists gained support by promising to restore the nation’s former glory.
- The peace treaty was opposed by revanchists who wanted to continue fighting.
- Historians noted that revanchists often emerge after military defeats.
- The government tried to suppress revanchist movements that threatened regional stability.
- Revanchists organized rallies demanding the return of lost territories.