redress Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury
indemnification; amends; damages; indemnity; restitution.
noun act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
remediation; remedy.
verb make reparations or amends for
compensate; right; correct.
- right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust

Pref. re- + dress.

F. redresser to straighten; pref. re- re- + dresser to raise, arrange. See Dress.

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.
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.
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.

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.
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.
One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress. Dryden.