redress
noun
the setting right of what is wrong.
had redressed
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past perfectof redress.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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By the time he had redressed himself, the Battery and his Platoon had both gone.
From "Contemptible", by "Casualty" by
However, she would not be content until I had taken off my helm and she had redressed the slight wounds.
From With Ring of Shield by Knox Magee
At present it was not understood that he had redressed any grievances; and the Florentines clearly had nothing to thank him for.
From Romola by George Eliot
She still looked a hundred years old, but her maid had redressed her toupee, and given her a handkerchief neither damp nor tinted with rubbed-off rouge.
From Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams
He redresses Johnson on Prior as he had redressed Macaulay on Steele; and he is not unjust, as we might have feared that he would be, to Pope.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury
