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redressive

adj

Etymology

From redress + -ive.

  1. derived from dīrēctus
  2. derived from *drēctiāre✻
  3. derived from drechier
  4. derived from *wre✻
  5. derived from re-
  6. derived from re-
  7. derived from redrecier
  8. derived from redresser
  9. derived from radresser
  10. inherited from redressen
  11. suffixed as redressive — “redress + ive”

Definitions

  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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