Good words all, evskig and Jack. Useful and relevant, but not the one that has been taunting me.
I'm not writing an article, toksik, but I had considered a similar approach. Unfortunately, there are rather a lot of such articles, which also underscores the problem with searching the web for anything that contains the fragment "occupied territory".
Ariadne was correct: the word does not start with an R. It does however sport two Rs immediately after the first letter. Which is what threw me, naturally.
The vanquished word is: irredentism. My fumbling definition was a bit off; dictionary.com defines an irredentist as: One who advocates the recovery of territory culturally or historically related to one's nation but now subject to a foreign government. So the idea of active support was misleading, and actually, I finally managed to wrestle the word to the ground after a stray mental strand lighted on the idea that the concept I was groping for was, as it turns out to've been, a belief. So to WordNet I headed, searched for "belief", extracted a list of belief's hyponyms, and started scanning the list for a word that seemed familiar, something that would slot neatly into the gaping hole that I'd been digging in my memory. The sought word was mercifully near the top of the fairly lengthy list.
The process was far too mechanical, leaving me with more chagrin than satisfaction. But, still: relief.
I'll be inappropriately incorporating some declension of the word into arbitrary sentences for the rest of the day. |
