All 3 Uses of
redress
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John Adams, by McCullough
- He felt privileged, blessed in his profession, he told Jonathan Sewall: Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and ready at command, to assist the feeble and friendless, to discountenance the haughty and lawless, to procure redress to wrongs, the advancement of right, to assert and maintain liberty and virtue, to discourage and abolish tyranny and vice?
Subsection 1.1.2redress = remedy
- …no answer whatever to the humble petitions of the colonies for redress of grievances and reconciliation with Great Britain has been or is likely to be given;
Subsection 1.2.2 *
- It was the explicit language of the first magistrate of the nation, disclosing to his fellow citizens the honest sentiments of his heart, expressing with proper feeling and sensibility the wrongs done to his injured country, and his determination to attempt to obtain redress; while at the same time it manifested humane anxiety to avert the calamities of war by temperance and negotiations.
Subsection 3.9.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(redress) fix a problem; or make up for a wrong
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(2)
(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, redress can mean to dress again.