How do you use the word "redress" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "redress" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "redress": The law is meant to redress decades of discrimination against the country's ethnic minorities. You have a right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Redress Meaning

/ɹɪˈdɹɛs/

Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

verbTo put in order again; to set right; to revise.

verbTo set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury or damage); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.

Sentence Examples

The law is meant to redress decades of discrimination against the country's ethnic minorities.

You have a right to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

right correct remedy

Antonyms:

wrong

CEFR Practice Quiz

The company offered a refund to ____ the customer's complaint about the damaged product.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The court ordered the company to ____ the harm caused to the claimants through compensation.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English redressen, from Anglo-Norman radresser, redrescer, redrescier and Middle French redresser (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again; to rebuild, to repair something damaged, to rectify, to restore; to obtain redress; to cure; (of hair) to stand on end; to revise a judgment”) (modern French redresser), from Old French redrecier (“to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again”), from Old French re- (“again, once more”) (from Latin re-, from Proto-Italic *wre (“again”); further etymology uncertain) + Old French drechier, drecier, dresser (“to dress; to stand up”) (from Vulgar Latin *drēctiāre, a contracted form of *dīrēctiāre, from Latin dīrēctus (“straight”)). Compare Catalan redreçar, Spanish redreçar (obsolete), Italian redreçare, redrezare, redricciare, ridirizzare (all obsolete), ridrizzare, Late Latin redressare (“to repair; to set right”), Old Occitan redreisar, redresar.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"And for thoſe Wrongs, thoſe bitter Iniuries, […] / I doubt not, but with Honor to redreſſe." — 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies, London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, act II, scene v, page 105, column 2:

"The approach has been met with little acceptance and, in our view, for reasons we described elsewhere[…], cannot fundamentally redress the inequality described above." — 2022, Sabine Fiedler, Cyril Robert Brosch, “What is a lingua franca?” (chapter 2), in Esperanto – Lingua Franca and Language Community, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 11:

"Nor envy we / Thy great reknown, nor grudge thy victory; / 'Tis thine, O king! the afflicted to redress, / And fame has fill'd the world with thy success: […]" — 1806, John Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite; or, The Knight's Tale. From [Geoffrey] Chaucer.”, in Thomas Park, editor, Fables from Bocaccio and Chaucer: … In Two Volumes. Collated with the Best Editions: … (The Works of the British Poets: Including Translations from the Greek and Roman Authors), volume I, London: Printed at the Stanhope Press, by Charles Whittingham, Union Buildings, Leather Lane; for John Sharpe, opposite York-House, Piccadilly, →OCLC, book I, page 25:

"Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not / Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? / By their right arms the conquest must be wrought? / Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye? no!" — 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a Romaunt: And Other Poems, 4th edition, London: Printed by T[homas] Davison, Whitefriars, for John Murray, Fleet-Street; Edinburgh: William Blackwood, and J. Ballantyne and Co.; Dublin: J. Cumming, →OCLC, canto II, stanza LXXV, page 102:

"Syr ſaid Dynadan I ſhalle gyue you my beholdynge / wel ſaid Palomydes / thenne ſhall ye ſee how we ſhalle redreſſe our myghtes" — 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xviij”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book X, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 222, recto; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 443, lines 19–21:

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