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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



... of these nations? Have you reaped any other benefit from them than an immense load of debt? If I am answered in the affirmative, why has their government been so often railed at in all your public assemblies? Why has the nation been so long crying out in vain for redress against the abuse of Parliaments, upon account of their long duration, the multitude of placemen, which occasions their venality, the introduction of penal laws, and, in general, against the miserable situation of the kingdom at home and abroad? All these, and many more inconveniences, ...
— Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems • W.E. Aytoun
... in fact, in the midland and north-eastern counties, began with an attempt to redress an agricultural grievance; according to Fox (E.H. vol. ii. p. 665. edit. 1641); "about plucking down of enclosures and enlarging of commons." The date of the homily itself offers no objection; for though it is said (Oxf. ed. Pref. p. v.) not ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 62, January 4, 1851 • Various
... these Premises, Your Petitionors humbly pray that Your Equitable Worship will take their distress'd State into Consideration, and Decree such Redress as to Your Satyrical Worship shall ...
— The Covent Garden Theatre, or Pasquin Turn'd Drawcansir • Charles Macklin
... thee brave, Unappall'd, War's dubious wave, 'Till the doom'd period close! War in vain shall spend his rage, Prelude to a peaceful age That shall redress his woes. Sweden! rouse thy martial band; 'Tis ...
— Gustavus Vasa - and other poems • W. S. Walker
... others are killed in Quercy. A number of chateaux in the environs of Montauban and in Limousin are assaulted with firearms, and several are pillaged.—Bands of twelve hundred men swarm the country; "they have a spite against every estate;" they redress wrongs; "they try over again cases disposed of thirty years ago, and give judgments which they put into execution."—If anybody fails to conform to the new code he is punished, and to the advantage of the new sovereigns. ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 2 (of 6) - The French Revolution, Volume 1 (of 3) • Hippolyte A. Taine


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