Sekirov Dictionary

redress

UK /ɹɪˈdɹɛs/US /ɹiˈdɹɛs/

noun 4
verb 4
/ˌɹiːˈdɹɛs/ verb 2
/ˌɹiːˈdɹɛs/ noun 1
forms 5

noun4

The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
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A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
- "Good heavens!" cried Elizabeth; "but how could that be?—How could his will be disregarded?—Why did you not seek legal redress?" — 1813
A possibility to set right, or a possibility to seek a remedy, for instance in court
One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

verb4

To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
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To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
- And for those Wrongs, those bitter Iniuries, […] / I doubt not, but with Honor to redresse. — 1591
•
To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
- Nor envy we / Thy great reknown, nor grudge thy victory; / 'Tis thine, O king! the afflicted to redress, / And fame has fill'd the world with thy success: […] — 1806
•
(no longer used) To put upright again; to restore.
- Syr said Dynadan I shalle gyue you my beholdynge / wel said Palomydes / thenne shall ye see how we shalle redresse our myghtes — 1889

redress

/ˌɹiːˈdɹɛs/

verb2

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To dress again.
- The top soil, which was removed before the main excavations, is being redressed on the new slopes to a depth of 4 in. and sown with grass seed. — 1958
•
To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
- Meanwhile the actors rearranged themselves into a different blocking, as the prop department redressed the set. — 1989

noun1

The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

forms

redressed · redrest · redressing · redresses · redresseth

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