Redressment

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of redressing; redress. countable, uncountable

    "July 19 1822, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Doctor Waterhouse Don Quixote undertook to redress the bodily wrongs of the world, but the redressment of mental vagaries would be an enterprise more than Quixotic"

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"July 19 1822, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Doctor Waterhouse Don Quixote undertook to redress the bodily wrongs of the world, but the redressment of mental vagaries would be an enterprise more than Quixotic"

Etymology

Compare French redressement.

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