Redress

Definition of Redress

Re`dress´ Pronunciation: r?`dr?s´

v. t.	1.	To dress again.
	1.
	1.	To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise. 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. Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? - Byron.
n.	1.	The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment. 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. 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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