redress
noun
the setting right of what is wrong.
redresser
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a word derived from
redress.
Example Sentences
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Ojeda was a hot-headed man, with somewhat of a vaunting spirit, and immediately set himself up for a redresser of grievances.
From The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) by Washington Irving
Welcome, O March! whose kindly days and dry Make April ready for the throstle's song, Thou first redresser of the winter's wrong!
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
The author of that story was Robert E. Howard, who was already a favorite with the readers of this magazine for his stories of Solomon Kane, the dour English Puritan and redresser of wrongs.
From Red Nails by Robert E. Howard
But I am not a redresser of grievances.
From The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed by Sir Arthur Helps
I am, madame; but I am no professed redresser of wrongs.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
