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