Both Uses of
redress
in
Gone with the Wind
- And should this happen, she had no legal rights, no legal redress, except those same drumhead courts of which Tony had spoken so bitterly, those military courts with their arbitrary powers.†
Chpt 4.37redress = fix a problem; or make up for a wrong
- Only the negroes had rights or redress these days.†
Chpt 4.37 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(redress as in: redress the problem) fix a problem; or make up for a wrong
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, redress can mean to dress again.