Irredentism (Noun)
Meaning
The doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- Kosovo's independence sparked strong feelings of irredentism in some neighboring countries that shared cultural ties with the new state.
- During World War II, Adolf Hitler justified his invasions as efforts to rectify supposed historic injustices, thereby implementing irredentism across the European continent.
- Venezuela claims nearly three-fifths of neighboring Guyana due to alleged territorial neglect under a now 174-year-old decree it dubs irredentism by reason.
- President Ernest Bai Koroma suggested 7 of neighboring country Nigeria states rightly and indelibly pertain or derive root causes associated there being Irredentism inside us deep
- Both Ireland's experience in what then it truly might regarded long territorial for e con considered against very deeply through country.