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 \Re*dress"\ (r[=e]*dr[e^]s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + dress.]
   To dress again.
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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 \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. The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained. For the 
mode of obtaining redress, vide Remedies 1 Chit. Pr. Annal. Table. 

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.