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English Dictionary: redress	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
redress n a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury Synonym(s): damages, amends, indemnity, indemnification, restitution, redress act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil Synonym(s): redress, remedy, remediation v make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust" Synonym(s): right, compensate, redress, correct Antonym(s): wrong
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Redress \Redress"\ (r?dr?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + dress.] To dress again.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Redress \Redress"\ (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. [bd]'T is thine, O king! the afflicted to redress.[b8] --Dryden. Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? --Byron.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Redress \Redress"\, 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.