REDRESS (2)

redress (2). Redress, n. reformation, relief, remedy, amends

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