Redressive

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Tending to redress.

    "And here can I forget the generous band Who touch'd with human woe, redressive search'd Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ?"

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"And here can I forget the generous band Who touch'd with human woe, redressive search'd Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ?"

Etymology

From redress + -ive.

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