Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who gives redress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who redresses.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
grants orachieves redress .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser."
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"A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser."
How about posting some of your favorite quotes? I like: "Good judgement comes from experience. 2010
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As Montresor pointed out, “A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser.”
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What would I not have given that it had been a quarrel — a violent one — and I the redresser of wrongs, and the defender of insulted beauty!
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"He is the great redresser of the wrongs and crimes of earth, and now that you are a spirit and immediately within his jurisdiction, you should lay your complaint before him and pray him to avenge the sufferings you have been called upon to endure."
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Les _Barilles_ pour redresser la tète les épaules et les hanches.
A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard
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The leniency of modern governments has of late usually resorted to the process by indictment; and the crown, waiving all the privileges which appertain to the kingly office, appears before the constituted tribunals of the land, as the redresser of the public wrongs, invested with no powers, and clothed with no authority beyond the simple rights possessed by the meanest of its subjects.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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Delacroix_ Mécanicien Bandagiste Gymnastique pour redresser les défauts de la nature, particulièrement chez les femmes.
A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Richard Boyle Bernard
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Why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection, the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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He is the true redresser of wrongs, the only real knight that ever lived.
The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams
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