Redress /(rē*drĕs")/

Re·dress

Redress

v. t.
  1. To dress again.

Redress

v. t.
  1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise. [R.]
    The common profit could she redress.
    In yonder spring of roses intermixed With myrtle, find what to redress till noon.
    Your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared.
    — A. Hamilton.
  2. 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.
  3. To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
    Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye?

Redress

n.
  1. 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.
  2. A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or opression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
    A few may complain without reason; but there is occasion for redress when the cry is universal.
    — Davenant.
  3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
    Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom fate pursues and wants oppress.