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REDRESS', v.t.

1. To set right; to amend.

In yonder spring of roses, find what to redress till noon.

[In this sense, as applied to material things, rarely used.]

2. To remedy; to repair; to relieve from, and sometimes to indemnify for; as, to redress wrongs; to redress injuries; to redress grievances. Sovereigns are bound to protect their subjects, and redress their grievances.

3. To ease; to relieve; as, she labored to redress my pain.

[We use this verb before the person or the thing. We say, to redress an injured person, or to redress the injury. The latter is most common.]

REDRESS', n.

1. Reformation; amendment.

For us the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves.

[This sense is now unusual.]

2. Relief; remedy; deliverance from wrong, injury or oppression; as the redress of grievances. We applied to government, but could obtain no redress.

There is occasion for redress when the cry is universal.

3. Reparation; indemnification. [This sense is often directly intended or implied in redress.]

4. One who gives relief.

Fair majesty, the refuge and redress of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress.
1913 Definition
Redress (redress)
v. t.(r?*dr?s")
Re*dress"
[Pref. re- + dress.]
  1. To dress again.
  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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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