redresse (third-person singular simple presentredresses,present participleredressing,simple past and past participleredressed)

1. Obsolete spelling ofredress.
   • 1596,Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC:

     Ne living aide for her on earth appeares, / But-if the heavens helpe toredresse her wrong, / Moved with pity of her plenteous teares.

   • 1597, Hen[ry] Arth[ington],Prouision for the Poore, Now in Penurie. Out of the Store-House of Gods Plentie: […], London: […] Thomas Creede:

     Toredreſſe which default (the poore in all places beeing in penurie) I haue vndertaken to be their Solicitour, vnto all manner of perſons, which ought in equitie either to ſupply them, or to prouide that ſuch as make default (being well able) may bee compelled thereunto by further authoritie front the Almightie, if this gentle motion in the words precedent will not preuaile, which heere I will repeate and explane vnto them, (by Gods aſſiſtance)

   • 1599 (first performance),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene i],page115, column 1:

     What neede we any ſpurre, but our owne cauſe / To pricke vs toredreſſe? What other Bond / Than ſecret Romans, that haue ſpoke the Word, / And will not palter?

redresse (countable anduncountable,pluralredresses)

1. Obsolete spelling ofredress.
   • c.1536-1542,Thomas Wyatt, “Yf in the world ther be more woo”, inEgerton MS 2711‎^[1],page63r:

     who liſt tolyue yn quyetnes
     by me lett hym beware
     For I by highe dyſdayne
     ame made withouteredreſſe
     andvnkyndenes Alas hathe ſlayne
     my poore trew hart all comfortles

   • 1549,John Cheke,The Hurt of Sedition:

     But yee[…] ought to be like sheep to your King, who ought to be like a Shepheard unto you, even in the time when your profit was sought, and betterredresse was intended then your upstirres and unquietnesse could obtaine[…]

   • 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar),Hugh Latimer, “A Frutefull Letter of Maister Latimer Written to a Certaine Gentilman”, inJohn Foxe,Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […],→OCLC, book V, page1350 [1419]:

     For in that you would your awardship shuld take none effect, you shew your selfe nothing inclinable to theredresse of your brothers vnright dealinge wyth an honeste poore man, which hath bene redye at your request to doo you pleasure with his things, or els he had neuer come into this wrāgle for his own goods with your brother.

redresse

1. inflection ofredresser:
   1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
   2. second-personsingularimperative

• desserre,desserré

Borrowed fromOld Frenchredresse; compareredressen.

• radresse,redres

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈdrɛs(ə)/

redresse

1. redress,recompense
2. correction,reproval
3. relief(removal of stress)
4. (rare)answer,resolution

• English:redress
• Yola:redress

• “redres(se,n.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

redresse

1. alternative form ofredressen

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