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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Redress \Re*dress"\ (r?*dr?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + dress.]
   To dress again.

Redress \Re*dress"\ (r?*dr?s"), v. t. [F. redresser to
   straighten; pref. re- re- + dresser to raise, arrange. See
   {Dress.}]
   1. To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
      [R.]

            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.

Redress \Re*dress"\, 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.
                                                  --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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

redress
     n 1: a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury [syn:
           {damages}, {amends}, {indemnity}, {indemnification}, {restitution}]
     2: act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil [syn: {remedy},
         {remediation}]
     v : make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the
         victims of the Holocaust" [syn: {right}, {compensate}, {correct}]
         [ant: {wrong}]