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.
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. --Shak.
3. 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.
Reformation of evil laws is commendable, but for us
the more necessary is a speedy redress of ourselves.
--Hooker.
2. 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.
3. One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
Fair majesty, the refuge and redress Of those whom
fate pursues and wants oppress. --Dryden.