redress

Etymology 1


From, from , , and  (modern 🇨🇬), from , from  (from , from ; further etymology uncertain) + , ,  (from , a contracted form of , from ).

Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , , , , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,.

Verb

 * 1) To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
 * 2) * 1667,, Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by ], and are to be sold by Peter Parker under Creed Church neer ; And by Robert Boulter at the Turks Head in Bishopsgate-street; and Matthias Walker, under St. Dunstons Church in Fleet-street, 767532218 , book IX; republished as John Milton; ; , Paradise Lost, by John Milton. To which are Prefixed, the Life of the Author, by Elijah Fenton; and a Criticism on the Poem, by Dr. Johnson, London: Printed for John Bumpus, Holborn-Bars, 1821,  563126389 , page 256:
 * Let us divide our labours; thou, where choice / Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind / The woodbine round this arbour, or direct / The clasping ivy where to climb; while I, / In yonder spring of roses intermixed / With myrtle, find what to redress till noon:
 * 1) * 1796 May 10,, letter to ; quoted in George Washington; , compiler, “Washington's Farewell Address [Appendix, No. III]”, in The Writings of George Washington; being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations, volume XII (Part Fifth; Comprising Speeches and Messages to Congress, Proclamations, and Addresses), Boston, Mass.: American Stationers' Company; John B. Russell; Cambridge, Mass.: Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, 1837, 29437768 , page 391:
 * Sir; When last in Philadelphia, you mentioned to me your wish that I should re-dress a certain paper, which you had prepared. As it is important, that a thing of this kind should be done with great care, and much at leisure, touched and retouched, I submit a wish, that, as soon as you have given it the body you mean it to have, it may be sent to me.
 * 1) To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
 * 2) To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
 * 3) * 1847, ;, transl., “The Anglo-Normans and the English by Race”, in History of the Conquest of England by the Normans: Its Causes, and Its Consequences, in England, Scotland, Ireland, and on the Continent [...] Translated from the 7th Paris edition by William Hazlitt, [...], volume II, London: D. Bogue, 458279441 ; reprinted Cambridge: , 2011, ISBN 978-1-108-03024-3 , pages=357–358, footnote:
 * &#91;Magna Charta&#93; [I]f we, our justiciary, our bailiffs, or any of our officers, shall in any circumstance fail in the performance of them, towards any person, or shall break through any of these articles of peace and security, and the offence be notified to four barons chosen out of the five-and-twenty before mentioned, the said four barons shall repair to us, or our justiciary, if we are out of the realm, and laying open the grievance, shall petition to have it redressed without delay: and if it be not redressed by us, or if we should chance to be out of the realm, if it should not be redressed by our justiciary, within forty days, the said five-and-twenty barons, together with the community of the whole kingdom, shall distrain and distress us all the ways possible, by seizing our castles, lands, possessions, and in other manner they can, till the grievance is redressed according to their pleasure;
 * 1)  To put upright again; to restore.
 * 1) * 1847, ;, transl., “The Anglo-Normans and the English by Race”, in History of the Conquest of England by the Normans: Its Causes, and Its Consequences, in England, Scotland, Ireland, and on the Continent [...] Translated from the 7th Paris edition by William Hazlitt, [...], volume II, London: D. Bogue, 458279441 ; reprinted Cambridge: , 2011, ISBN 978-1-108-03024-3 , pages=357–358, footnote:
 * &#91;Magna Charta&#93; [I]f we, our justiciary, our bailiffs, or any of our officers, shall in any circumstance fail in the performance of them, towards any person, or shall break through any of these articles of peace and security, and the offence be notified to four barons chosen out of the five-and-twenty before mentioned, the said four barons shall repair to us, or our justiciary, if we are out of the realm, and laying open the grievance, shall petition to have it redressed without delay: and if it be not redressed by us, or if we should chance to be out of the realm, if it should not be redressed by our justiciary, within forty days, the said five-and-twenty barons, together with the community of the whole kingdom, shall distrain and distress us all the ways possible, by seizing our castles, lands, possessions, and in other manner they can, till the grievance is redressed according to their pleasure;
 * 1)  To put upright again; to restore.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Maori: puretumu
 * Middle English: redressen
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Maori: puretumu
 * Middle English: redressen
 * Russian: ,


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Maori: puretumu
 * Middle English: redressen
 * Russian:


 * Maori: puretumu
 * Middle English: redressen
 * Russian:

Noun

 * 1) The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
 * 2) A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
 * 3) * 1791 December 15 (adoption), First Amendment of the :
 * Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
 * 1) A possibility to set right, or a possibility to seek a remedy, for instance in court
 * 2) One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
 * 1) A possibility to set right, or a possibility to seek a remedy, for instance in court
 * 2) One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
 * 1) A possibility to set right, or a possibility to seek a remedy, for instance in court
 * 2) One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
 * 1) One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Georgian: გასწორება, გამოსწორება, შესწორება
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Maori: puretumutanga, puretumu
 * Middle English: redresse
 * Persian:
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Georgian: კომპენსაცია, ანაზღაურება
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Middle English: redresse
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Middle English: redresse

Etymology 2
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Verb

 * 1) To dress again.
 * 2)  To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
 * 1)  To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
 * 1)  To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
 * 1)  To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

Noun

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

Etymology
From, from.