redress
noun
the setting right of what is wrong.
have redressed
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present perfectof redress.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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I have redressed grievances, righted the injured, chastised the insolent, vanquished giants.
From The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers
Nevertheless, they were such as the British Government was entitled to endeavour to have redressed.
From Impressions of South Africa by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
An injury sharpen’d by an insult, be it to whom it will, makes every man of sentiment a party: I could have leap’d out of the box to have redressed it.
From A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne
Henceforth the single redress for the English of this capital oversight, but which never could have redressed it effectually, was—to vitiate and taint the coronation of Charles VII. as the work of a witch.
From Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey
The Protestants, however, presented a list of grievances which they wished to have redressed before they listened to his request.
From The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
