Sample Sentences for
redress
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redress as in:  redress the problem

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    In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms:  (source)
    Redress = correction (to have the problem fixed)
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    A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.  (source)
    redresser = someone who compensates or makes up for a wrong
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    If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.  (source)
    redress = remedy (making up for wrongs)
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    Many and more of the matters brought before her involved redress.  (source)
    redress = fixing a problem; or making up for a wrong
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    Westley asked question after question while the albino tended and redressed his wound, then fed him food that was warm and surprisingly good and plentiful.†  (source)
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    My leisure then, and my old age, would have been devoted, in company with the Empress and during the royal apprenticeship of my son, to leisurely visiting, with our own horses and like a true country couple, every corner of the Empire, receiving complaints, redressing wrongs, and scattering public buildings and benefactions on all sides and everywhere.†  (source)
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    A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.  (source)
    unredressed = not made right
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unredressed means not and reverses the meaning of redressed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Another Theban maiden did right so; For one of Macedon had her oppress'd, She with her death her maidenhead redress'd.†  (source)
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    —why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection—the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant—Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.†  (source)
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    Sir, I had thought, by making this well known unto you, To have found a safe redress; but now grow fearful, By what yourself too late have spoke and done, That you protect this course, and put it on By your allowance; which if you should, the fault Would not scape censure, nor the redresses sleep, Which, in the tender of a wholesome weal, Might in their working do you that offence Which else were shame, that then necessity Will call discreet proceeding.†  (source)
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    Of orisons ye shall understand, that orisons or prayers is to say a piteous will of heart, that redresseth it in God, and expresseth it by word outward, to remove harms, and to have things spiritual and durable, and sometimes temporal things.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She redresseth" in older English, today we say "She redresses."
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    Could anything be done to redress these inequities?  (source)
    redress = fix or remedy
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    You remind me of a story Harry told me about a certain philanthropist who spent twenty years of his life in trying to get some grievance redressed, or some unjust law altered—I forget exactly what it was.†  (source)
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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    All of a sudden, I'm overwhelmed by the thought that Peeta may be already lost, bled white, collected, and in the process of being transported back to the Capitol to be cleaned up, redressed, and shipped in a simple wooden box back to District 12.  (source)
    redressed = dressed again
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    Earlier, Mortenson had smoothed antibiotic cream into the hands of a twelve-year-old boy whose stepfather had pressed them to a stove, then redressed his bandages.  (source)
    redressed = wrapped in bandages again
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    She redresses us so regular clothes hide our uniforms before we even don our coats and cloaks.  (source)
    redresses = dresses again
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