redress

Meanings

Verb

• To put in order again; to set right; to revise.
• To set right (a wrong); to repair, (an injury); to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
• To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
• To put upright again; to restore.
• To dress again.
• To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

Noun

• The act of redressing; a making right; amendment; correction; reformation.
• A setting right, as of injury, oppression, or wrong, such as the redress of grievances; hence, indemnification; relief; remedy; reparation.
• One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
• The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

Origin

• From Middle English redressen, from Anglo-Norman radresser, redrescer, redrescier and Middle French redresser ("to stand#Verb") (modern French redresser), from Old French redrecier ("to stand (someone or something) up; to stand up again"), from Old French re- ("prefix meaning ‘[[again, once more’") (from Latin re-, from Proto-Italic *wre ("again"); further etymology uncertain) + Old French drechier, drecier, dresser (from Vulgar Latin *drēctiāre, a contracted form of *dirēctiāre, from Latin dīrectus ("straight")).
• Compare Catalan redreçar, Spanish redreçar , Italian redreçare, redrezare, redricciare, ridirizzare , ridrizzare, Late Latin redressare ("to repair; to [[set#Verb"), Old Occitan redreisar, redresar.
• re- + dress.