Reform vs Redress - What's the difference?

Reform is a related term of redress.

As nouns the difference between reform and redress

is that reform is reform 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.

reform

English

(wikipedia reform) (Webster 1913)

Noun

(en noun)

Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.

Synonyms

* reformation * amendment * rectification * correction

Derived terms

* monetary reform

Verb

(en verb)

To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct.

to reform''' a profligate man; to '''reform corrupt manners or morals

* Jonathan Swift

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a person of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.

(intransitive) To form again or in a new configuration.

This product contains reformed meat.

The regiment reformed after surviving the first attack.

The pop group reformed for one final tour.

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Synonyms

* amend * correct * rectify * mend * repair * better * improve * restore * reclaim

Anagrams

* former ----

redress

English

(wikipedia redress)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) redrecier and (etyl) redresser, from (re-) + .

Verb

(es)

To put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise.

* Milton

In yonder spring of roses intermixed / With myrtle, find what to redress till noon.

* A. Hamilton

your wish that I should redress a certain paper which you had prepared

To set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for; to remedy; to relieve from.

* Shakespeare

Those wrongs, those bitter injuries, / I doubt not but with honour to redress .

To make amends or compensation to; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon.

* Dryden

'Tis thine, O king! the afflicted to redress .

* Byron

Will Gaul or Muscovite redress ye?

(obsolete) To put upright again; to restore.

* 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book X:

‘Well,’ sayde Sir Palomydes, ‘than shall ye se how we shall redresse oure myghtes!’

Derived terms

* self-redress

Noun

(redresses)

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.

Etymology 2

Verb

(es)

To dress again.

* 1963 , Albert J. Solnit, ?Milton J. E. Senn, ?Sally Provence, Modern perspectives in child development (page 588)

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.

To redecorate a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

Noun

(redresses)

The redecoration of a previously existing film set so that it can double for another set.

This is a redress of the office set.

Anagrams

* English heteronyms