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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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
One day they tanked so savagely that Nurse Eliza, after months of sickly disapproval, came to the new redresser of grievances, and told.
From Hard Cash by Charles Reade
He has "punished with impunity" and he has made the fact that he is the redresser felt by "him who has done the wrong."
From Writing the Photoplay by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein
The knight acted as the general redresser of grievances.
From The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves by T. (Tobias) Smollett
"Come, child," said he, "I will pay thee what I owe thee, as that righter of wrongs and redresser of grievances has ordered me."
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
