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plural irredentists
Someone who calls for the seizure or recovery of territories or states currently subject to other countries; an adherent of irredentism. quotations examples
As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators.
2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, pages 630–1
comparative more irredentist, superlative most irredentist
Of or relating to irredentists or their policies. quotations examples
In 1885, a Bulgarian irredentist movement seized control of neighbouring Ottoman-ruled Eastern Roumelia and announced the creation of a Greater Bulgaria.
2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 126