revanchist
noun·/rɪˈvɑːn.ʃɪst/
One who seeks revenge in political or national terms, especially the recovery of lost territory or status, a partisan of "getting it back," with grievance made program. A revanchist is oriented toward the past as a debt to be collected.
His speeches were revanchist to the core—every promise hinged on restoring what history, he insisted, had stolen.
adjective
Driven by or expressing such a desire for revanche.
A revanchist mood settled over the movement, turning memory into marching orders.
Etymology
From French revanche "revenge," from re- "again" + venger "to avenge." Prominent in European political discourse for movements that treated national loss as an injury requiring redress.
Related Words
irredentistseeking to reclaim “unredeemed” territory; close kin
ultranationalistoften overlaps in posture, though not identical
reparationsa formal counterpart to informal grievance
revanchismthe ideology or tendency