Redress: Definition and part of speech

Redress

  1. n. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
  2. v. t. To dress again.
  3. v. t. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
  4. v. t. To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
  5. v. t. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
  6. n. The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
  7. n. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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