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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I grieve to say that here the doughty redresser of domestic wrongs and retriever of the family honor lapsed white-faced in his chair idealess and tremulous.
From Colonel Starbottle's Client by Bret Harte
So this redresser of wrongs starts off, leaving the Margrave in his grief.
From Thackeray by Anthony Trollope
National honor is trodden under foot for a national bribe, and neither sex nor age defends the redresser of injuries from the rage of the injurer.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
The "Calaveras Clarion," although a "Palladium" and a "Sentinel upon the Heights of Freedom" in reference to wagon roads, was not a redresser of domestic wrongs,—except through its advertising columns!
From Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation by Bret Harte
Thus these helmeted warriors will here perform the work of the redresser of wrongs as they restore their full shape to the fields and make level the cavities already half filled by cargoes of invaders.
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray
