Edress vs Redress - What's the difference?
edress | redress |
* 1993 September 23, "williams" (username), "
* 2001 , Michael Flynn, Lodestar , Macmillan, ISBN 0812542967, page 124:
* 2001 December 7, Marilee J. Layman, "
* 2010 April 9, "Leslie" (username), "
To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.
* Milton
* A. Hamilton
To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.
* Shakespeare
To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.
* Dryden
* Byron
(obsolete) To put upright again; to restore.
* 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book X:
The act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment.
A setting right, as of wrong, injury, or oppression; as, the redress of grievances; hence, relief; remedy; reparation; indemnification.
One who, or that which, gives relief; a redresser.
To dress again.
* 1963 , Albert J. Solnit, ?Milton J. E. Senn, ?Sally Provence, Modern perspectives in child development (page 588)
To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.
As nouns the difference between edress and redress
is that edress is while redress is the act of redressing; a making right; reformation; correction; amendment or redress can be the redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.As a verb redress is
to put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise or redress can be to dress again.edress
English
Noun
(es)here's another chance to flame, in rec.pets.herp, Usenet :
- If anybody wants to take up a reply to ream me out, my edress is as follows:
- Baleen’s boardroom lay somewhere out in the virtch, in a deeply encrypted region called the Briarpatch. Only Baleen (and Poole sEcurity) had the edress and key.
Re: @home.com email addys", in rec.crafts.beads, Usenet :
- Comcast negotiated a deal for a few months, they're going to pay a lot more to @home for those months, while they try to find a new cable supplier. So your edress will probably change eventually.
Re: April Phoenix Housfilk - Announcement", in rec.music.filk, Usenet :
- My edress is .
redress
English
(wikipedia redress)Etymology 1
From (etyl) redrecier and (etyl) redresser, from (re-) + .Verb
(es)- In yonder spring of roses intermixed / With myrtle, find what to redress till noon.
- your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared
- Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, / I doubt not but with honour to redress .
- 'Tis thine, O king! the afflicted to redress .
- Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye?
- ‘Well,’ sayde Sir Palomydes, ‘than shall ye se how we shall redresse oure myghtes!’
Derived terms
* self-redressNoun
(redresses)Etymology 2
.Verb
(es)- The teacher first undressed and redressed the doll for the child, then showed her how to pull the snaps apart. No other activity interested the little girl, and after repeated demonstrations she was still trying unsuccessfully to undress the doll.
Noun
(redresses)- This is a redress of the office set.