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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



... My lord, while I am queen I shall not think One man too mean or poor to be redress'd. Moreover, lord, I am informed your laws Are grown so large, and daily yet increase, That the great age of old Methusalem Would scarce suffice to read ...
— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding
... senor; but not for all the world would I follow your advice—not for my life. I am an American—a Kentuckian. We do not take blows without giving something of the same in return. I must have redress." ...
— The Lone Ranche • Captain Mayne Reid
... important affair of all, and that which cries most loudly for redress, remains inexplicable to this moment. For seven years was I at your royal court, where every one to whom the enterprise was mentioned treated it as ridiculous; but now there is not a man, down to the very tailors, who does not beg to be allowed to become a discoverer. There is ...
— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 • Various
... extremely necessary that the crown should be empowered to regulate the duration of these assemblies, under the limitations which the English constitution has prescribed: so that, on the one hand, they may frequently and regularly come together, for the dispatch of business and redress of grievances; and may not, on the other, even with the consent of the crown, be continued to an inconvenient ...
— Commentaries on the Laws of England - Book the First • William Blackstone
... be frankly admitted. He was not alone in his opinion; nor was he the only poet carried away with a wild enthusiasm of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Societies were then springing up all over the country calling for redress of grievances and for greater political freedom. Such societies were regarded by the Government of the day as seditious, and their agitations as dangerous to the peace of the country; and Burns, though he did not become a member of the Society ...
— Robert Burns - Famous Scots Series • Gabriel Setoun


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