redresse

See also: redressé

English

Verb

redresse (third-person singular simple present redresses, present participle redressing, simple past and past participle redressed)

1. Obsolete spelling of redress.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Ne living aide for her on earth appeares, / But-if the heavens helpe to redresse 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:

     To redreſſe 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”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 115, column 1:

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

Noun

redresse (countable and uncountable, plural redresses)

1. Obsolete spelling of redress.
   • c. 1536-1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Yf in the world ther be more woo”, in Egerton MS 2711‎^[1], page 63r:

     who liſt to lyue yn quyetnes
     by me lett hym beware
     For I by highe dyſdayne
     ame made withoute redreſſe
     and vnkyndenes 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 better redresse 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”, in John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC, book V, page 1350 [1419]:

     For in that you would your awardship shuld take none effect, you shew your selfe nothing inclinable to the redresse 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.

French

Verb

redresse

1. inflection of redresser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• desserre, desserré

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French redresse; compare redressen.

Alternative forms

• radresse, redres

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈdrɛs(ə)/

Noun

redresse

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

Descendants

• English: redress
• Yola: redress

References

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

Etymology 2

Verb

redresse

1. Alternative form of redressen