word of the day: revanche

The word of the day is revanche:

Etymology:  < French revanche revenge n. (c1525 in Middle French in sense ‘action of making requital or retaliation for an injury’, 1588 in sense ‘action of making requital or recompense for a benefit received’).

1. The action or an act of returning a favour or (now chiefly) avenging an injury; requital, recompense; revenge, retaliation. in revanche: in return; in revenge.

 2. Polit. Also with capital initial. The return of a nation's lost territory; a policy, movement, or act of aggression aimed at achieving this. Now chiefly hist. 

Freq. with reference to the desire of France to regain the province of Alsace-Lorraine after its annexation in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. (OED)

"Nussbaum’s belief that religious liberty, especially for Muslims, is in crisis in the Western world led to a book, The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012). It offers a protest against  revanchist anti-Muslim trends in Europe and the United States."

 - Sarah Miller-Davenport, "Faith Healer", November-December 2012 The University of Chicago Magazine