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Redress

Compensation for injuries sustained; recovery or restitution for harm or injury; damages or equitable relief. Access to the courts to gain Reparation for a wrong.

redress

verb adjust, aid, allay, alleviate, appease, atone, change, compensare, compensate, correct, cure, ease, expiate, fix, heal, help, improve, make amends, make good, make reparation, make up for, mend, pacify, palliate, propitiate, put right, readjust, rectify, relieve, remedy, repair, restituere, restore, right, satisfy, set right
Associated concepts: legal redress

REDRESS. The act of receiving satisfaction for an injury sustained. For the mode of obtaining redress, vide Remedies 1 Chit. Pr. Annal. Table.

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At the novel's conclusion Costanza is re-dressed in the clothes of the daughter of the Chief Magistrate of the town, and we are informed that the borrowed garb suits her so well that she looked as if she had been born a lady and had always worn such clothes.

Dressing up and dressing down: clothing and class identity in the Novelas ejemplares

For a start we had to re-dress so many times that after a while tying my shoelaces was too much of an effort.

The formalities of the formal

It is time to re-dress the body and allow it to be read with its full accoutrements of clothing, jewellery and cosmetics.

The clothed body in the ancient world. (Coming Conference)

I had opposed it, hoping we could re-dress an existing set.

La Dolce Harvey

McLaughlin's solution is literally to "re-dress" the problem of Jesus' maleness by reading him as a transvestite, as one who shatters the opposed duality of male/female.

The risks of repeating ourselves: reading feminist/womanist figures of Jesus

I had to bin everything she was wearing and re-dress her in a pair of pyjamas I'd p acked in her changing bag.

A clean break - home for the holidays

People decorating for the holidays want to re-dress their bed and bathroom in anticipation of the holidays and for family coming in."

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"It was when I was doing my clinical exam, I had to re-dress an amputation straight from surgery.

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She was discharged after a week of being pumped with fluid and antibiotics and spent the following month on bed-rest, with nurses visiting every other day to re-dress the gaping wound.

Woman almost loses her leg after heat rash became infected with flesh-eating bug during dream trip to Paris; WARNING - GRAPHIC IMAGES: Sydney Shipley, 21, underwent emergency surgery to remove an 8ins by 6ins chunk of diseased tissue because of a condition known as necrotizing fasciitis, doctors said

There begins the strange dance involved in trying to balance a small, wriggling child on your knee while simultaneously trying to undress and re-dress both of you.

Don't jump in at the deep end at half term

Within the last six months four of the largest available properties have been either let or sold - and there is little evidence of any supply chain to re-dress the imbalance of supply and demand.

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But after contrasting starts to the new First Utility Super League campaign, the former Grand Final kings are poised to re-dress the balance of West Yorkshire power.