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Redress \Re*dress"\ (r[=e]*dr[e^]s"), v. t. [Pref. re- dress.]
To dress again.
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Redress \Re*dress"\ (r[-e]*dr[e^]s"), v. t. [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.]
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The common profit could she redress. --Chaucer.
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In yonder spring of roses intermixed
With myrtle, find what to redress till noon.
--Milton.
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Your wish that I should redress a certain paper
which you had prepared. --A. Hamilton.
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2. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make
amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
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Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, . . .
I doubt not but with honor to redress. --Shak.
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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.
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Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? --Byron.
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Redress \Re*dress"\, n.
1. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation;
correction; amendment. [R.]
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Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us
the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves.
--Hooker.
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2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as,
the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy;
reparation; indemnification. --Shak.
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A few may complain without reason; but there is
occasion for redress when the cry is universal.
--Davenant.
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3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
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Fair majesty, the refuge and redress
Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress.
--Dryden.
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