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Definition of Redress
Redress

To dress again.

To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.

To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.

To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.

The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.

A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.

One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

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Redress Quotations

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
Benjamin Disraeli

I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
Lord Byron

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage. We of the North have hitherto acquiesced in it, lest, in the endeavor to redress it in violation of the Constitution, greater evils might ensue.
Robert D. Owens

We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same in common with other Americans, can never consent to - be the bearers of the redress offered by that Society to that much afflicted.
Richard V. Allen

And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I shall send my voice beyond the walls of this Capitol for redress.
Caleb Cushing

Redress Translations

redress in French is supprimer
redress in Italian is eliminare

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