Redress
[rɪ'dres] or [rɪ'drɛs]
Definition
(v. t.) To dress again.
(v. t.) To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
(v. t.) To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
(v. t.) To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
(n.) The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
(n.) A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
(n.) One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Remedy, repair, relieve from, make amends for.
n. Remedy, relief, amends, compensation, reparation, atonement.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Right, order, revise, amend, rectify, remedy, repair
ANT:Aggravate, impair, wrong, worsen, intensify, establish, confirm, reiterate,sanction, deepen, perpetuate
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Definition
v.t. to set right: to relieve from: to make amends to: to compensate: to dress again.—n. relief: reparation.—n. Redress′er one who gives redress.—adjs. Redress′ible that may be redressed; Redress′ive affording redress; Redress′less without relief.—n. Redress′ment the act of redressing.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. Reparation without satisfaction.
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Examples
- There was no sympathy, no redemption, no redress! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They nearly shook my mind; relief was so hopeless, redress so unattainable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Did you redress yourself to me, my man? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- If they were turned out illegally by the violence of their master, the action by which they obtained redress was extremely imperfect. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- No communication--a--until--Miss Wickfield--a--redress from wrongs inflicted by consummate scoundrel--HEEP! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Why did you not seek legal redress? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- When he exercised it by a bailiff, indeed, redress might sometimes be had. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Remember that the wrong can never be redressed, unless the means are in my power of forcing him to do her justice. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- If I fail, the wrong that Laura has suffered will, in this world, never be redressed. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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