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redress
(mass) | redress
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redress
(encz) | redress,náprava n: Zdeněk Brož |
redress
(encz) | redress,napravit v: Zdeněk Brož |
Redress
(gcide) | Redress \Re*dress"\ (r[=e]*dr[e^]s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + dress.]
To dress again.
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Redress
(gcide) | 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
(gcide) | 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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redress
(wn) | redress
n 1: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
[syn: damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification,
restitution, redress]
2: act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil [syn:
redress, remedy, remediation]
v 1: make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the
victims of the Holocaust" [syn: right, compensate,
redress, correct] [ant: wrong] |
redress
(devil) | REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
Among the Anglo-Saxon a subject conceiving himself wronged by the
king was permitted, on proving his injury, to beat a brazen image of
the royal offender with a switch that was afterward applied to his own
naked back. The latter rite was performed by the public hangman, and
it assured moderation in the plaintiff's choice of a switch.
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REDRESS
(bouvier) | REDRESS. The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained. For the
mode of obtaining redress, vide Remedies 1 Chit. Pr. Annal. Table.
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redress
(mass) | redress
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redress
(encz) | redress,náprava n: Zdeněk Brožredress,napravit v: Zdeněk Brož |
redresses
(encz) | redresses, |
Redressal
(gcide) | Redressal \Re*dress"al\ (r?*dr?s"al), n.
Redress.
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Redresser
(gcide) | Redresser \Re*dress"er\ (-?r), n.
One who redresses.
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Redressible
(gcide) | Redressible \Re*dress"i*ble\ (-?*b'l), a.
Such as may be redressed.
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Redressive
(gcide) | Redressive \Re*dress"ive\ (-?v), a.
Tending to redress. --Thomson.
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Redressless
(gcide) | Redressless \Re*dress"less\, a.
Not having redress; such as can not be redressed;
irremediable. --Sherwood.
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Redressment
(gcide) | Redressment \Re*dress"ment\ (-ment), n. [Cf. F. redressement.]
The act of redressing; redress. --Jefferson.
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Unredressed
(gcide) | Unredressed \Unredressed\
See redressed. |
redress
(wn) | redress
n 1: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
[syn: damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification,
restitution, redress]
2: act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil [syn:
redress, remedy, remediation]
v 1: make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the
victims of the Holocaust" [syn: right, compensate,
redress, correct] [ant: wrong] |
redress
(devil) | REDRESS, n. Reparation without satisfaction.
Among the Anglo-Saxon a subject conceiving himself wronged by the
king was permitted, on proving his injury, to beat a brazen image of
the royal offender with a switch that was afterward applied to his own
naked back. The latter rite was performed by the public hangman, and
it assured moderation in the plaintiff's choice of a switch.
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REDRESS
(bouvier) | REDRESS. The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained. For the
mode of obtaining redress, vide Remedies 1 Chit. Pr. Annal. Table.
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