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.
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.