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Redress

Redress (redress)
v. t.(r?*dr?s")
Re*dress"
[Pref. re- + dress.]
  1. To dress again.

Redress

Redress (redress)
v. t.(r?*dr?s")
Re*dress"
[F. redresser to straighten; pref. re- re- + dresser to raise, arrange. See Dress.]

  1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
    [R.]

    The common profit could she redress. Chaucer.

    In yonder spring of roses intermixed
    With myrtle, find what to redress till noon.     Milton.

    Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared. A. Hamilton.

  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.     Shak.

  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." Dryden.

    Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? Byron.

Redress

Redress (redress)
n.
Re*dress"
  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. Hooker.

  2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
    Shak.

    A few may complain without reason; but there is occasion for redress when the cry is universal. Davenant.

  3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

    Fair majesty, the refuge and redress
    Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress.     Dryden.













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