Risorgimento

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Risorgimento

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Borrowed from Italian risorgimento (“revival”).

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  1. historical The political and military movement that led to the unification of Italy in the 19th century.
  2. Renewal, revival, renaissance. [O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento inten

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@misc{risorgimento_2026,
  title = {Risorgimento},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/risorgimento},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}