Fwd: irredentist: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

[Dave Monroe]

"'Ever heard of D'Annunzio?'  Then: Mussolini?  Fiume?  Italia
irredenta?  Fascisti?  National Socialist German Workers' Party?
Adolf Hitler?  Kautsky's Independents?" (V., Ch. 9, Sec. ii, p. 24)

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Word of the Day for Wednesday, November 20, 2013

irredentist \ir-i-DEN-tist\, noun:

1. a member of a party in any country advocating the acquisition of
some region included in another country by reason of cultural,
historical, ethnic, racial, or other ties.
2. (usually initial capital letter) a member of an Italian association
that became prominent in 1878, advocating the redemption, or the
incorporation into Italy, of certain neighboring regions (Italia
irredenta) having a primarily Italian population.

adjective:
1. pertaining to or supporting such a party or its doctrine.

 Although the U.I.C. had popular support, its senior members
 included irredentists and Al Qaeda veterans, worrying Somalia's
 neighbors.
 -- Xan Rice, "Now Serving," The New Yorker, Sept. 30, 2013

 In Evelyn's face, I saw the travels of Marco Polo, the fall of
 Constantinople, the irredentist yearnings of Hungaro—Romanians.
 -- Leonard Michaels, The Collected Stories, 2007

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Irredentist entered English in the late 1800s from the Italian word
irredent which literally meant "unredeemed" but more importantly
referred to an adherent of a specific political party.

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