Labels: Alfred E. Zimmern, Arthur Greenwood, J. Dover Wilson, R.W. Seton-Watson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Lippmann
|
Permalink: irredenta Entry By: CJ Cooney Smash illiteracy! Email This Word To A Friend: |
|
| a dictionary of words and phrases on the verge of extinction — updated daily — for the word obsessed! | ![]() |

|
irredenta ir-i-DEN-tuh noun a geographic area or ethnic group related politically to one group but controlled politically by another group 1882New Arabian NightsWell,' said he, 'here is a toast in the meantime: 'Italia Irredenta!''1915The War and DemocracyAll that still remained to be won was Venice, which Austria ceded in 1866; Rome, which the French had occupied in the name of the Pope, and were forced to evacuate in 1870; and the Italia Irredenta of to-day, viz. the Trentino, Trieste, and Istria, which may be recovered as a result of the present war.1922Public OpinionThe only part of them that could possibly procure allied sympathy was that which would recover the genuine Italia Irredenta.Labels: Alfred E. Zimmern, Arthur Greenwood, J. Dover Wilson, R.W. Seton-Watson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Lippmann
Weltanschauung VEL-tawn-SHA-uhng noun a world view; a global perspective; a view of the universe and man's place in it 1915The War and DemocracyThis is not the place in which to analyse in detail the outlook upon life (Weltanschauung) of the man in the street in modern Germany.1972Time's Last Gift...the man had a somewhat non-Homo sapiens Weltanschauung.1980A Confederacy of DuncesYou must realize the fear and hatred which my Weltanschauung instills in people.Labels: Alfred E. Zimmern, J. Dover Wilson, R.W. Seton-Watson
|