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Redress   /rɪdrˈɛs/  /rˈidrɛs/   Listen
verb
Redress  v. t.  To dress again.


Redress  v. t.  
1.
To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise. (R.) "The common profit could she redress." "In yonder spring of roses intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon." "Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared."
2.
To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from. "Those wrongs, those bitter injuries,... I doubt not but with honor to redress."
3.
To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon. "'T is thine, O king! the afflicted to redress." "Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye?"


noun
Redress  n.  
1.
The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. (R.) "Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves."
2.
A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification. "A few may complain without reason; but there is occasion for redress when the cry is universal."
3.
One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser. "Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress."





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"Redress" Quotes from Famous Books



... counties. Twenty thousand men gathered round an "oak of Reformation" near Norwich, and repulsing the royal troops in a desperate engagement renewed the old cries for a removal of evil counsellors, a prohibition of enclosures, and redress for the grievances of ...
— History of the English People - Volume 4 (of 8) • John Richard Green
... you who live in a powerful country think we little folk have no hearts, that we have no wrongs to redress, no dreams of conquest and of power. You ...
— The Puppet Crown • Harold MacGrath
... she saw the son of that other woman she felt herself removed into the cold, the darkness, the silence of a solitude impenetrable and immense—very far from him, beyond the possibility of any hope, into an infinity of wrongs without any redress. ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad
... money had been raised and spent before this man came here at all. It's all very well to say that he had no right to do it; but he had done it. I couldn't even have gone to law with him without going over to California, and then I should have got no redress.' Through it all he disliked Fisker, and yet Fisker had one great merit which certainly recommended itself warmly to Montague's appreciation. Though he denied the propriety of Paul's interference in the ...
— The Way We Live Now • Anthony Trollope
... the dual purpose which he had always before him. He wrote a great story, and he laboured also to redress a great social scandal. In no other, perhaps, except A Tale of Two Cities, is the tragic power which lay behind all his humour apparent ...
— Kate Coventry - An Autobiography • G. J. Whyte-Melville


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