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/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

... for the Empire, as it is generally regarded, but for the enforcement of those standards of justice and honour which have made us the greatest nation in the world. It is not a war of retaliation nor aggression, but a war to redress wrong, to succour ...

— Over the Top With the Third Australian Division • G. P. Cuttriss

... evil-doers. His rule was as despotic as he could possibly make it. If any officer appointed by the Home Government disagreed with his policy he suspended him from his office, and left him to seek redress from his friends in England—a tedious process, which lasted for years. Disagreeable common people he suspended also—by the neck. If a farmer, squatter, or merchant was insubordinate, he stopped his supply ...

— The Book of the Bush • George Dunderdale

... submitted; but the phrase is scarcely accurate. Verplanck took his own way of obtaining redress, and annoyed Clinton with satirical attacks for several years afterward. Some of these appeared in a newspaper called the Corrector, but those which attracted the most attention, were the pamphlets styled Letters of Abimelech Coody, Ladies' Shoemaker, ...

— A Discourse on the Life, Character and Writings of Gulian Crommelin - Verplanck • William Cullen Bryant

... swung wide open for women. They have not done so for the working girls." She pointed out the many opportunities for the boys to learn the trades which are denied to the girls. "There is only one way to redress their wrongs and that is by the ballot," she declared, and in closing she said: "Of all the people who block the progress of woman suffrage the worst are the women of wealth and leisure who never knew a day's work and never felt a day's want, but who selfishly stand in the way of those women who ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper

... patriotism and the Americanism, as much a part of him as the marrow of his bones, and from which sprang all those brilliant headlong letters to the newspapers: those trenchant assaults upon evil-doers in public office, those quixotic efforts to redress wrongs, and those simple and dexterous exposures of this and that, from an absolutely unexpected point of view. He was a quickener of the public conscience. That people are beginning to think tolerantly of preparedness, ...

— Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis • Various

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