Dictionary entry

Redress (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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.