0 supporting or relating to a policy of returning land to a country that it belonged to in the past:
nationalist and irredentist forces
1 someone who supports a policy of returning land to a country that it belonged to in the past:
The people threw out the irredentist and elected a peacemaker.
People leave patriotic messages in Spanish that are full of irredentist sentiment.
The term "irredentists" is commonly applied to Italians who, after 1870, sought "redemption" of Italian-speaking lands under Austrian rule.
His coalition includes everything from western-style liberals to frothing-at-the-mouth irredentists.
It was a place and populace that sought to reduce ethno-national tensions, yet remained vulnerable to irredentist claims by its socialist neighbours.
As far as the state's irredentist rhetoric went, exclusionary nationalism was counterintuitive, if not abhorrent.
