Succor vs Redress - What's the difference?
succor | redress | Related terms |
Aid, assistance or relief given to one in distress; ministration.
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.
Succor is a related term of redress.
As nouns the difference between succor and redress
is that succor is aid, assistance or relief given to one in distress; ministration 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 verbs the difference between succor and redress
is that succor is to give such assistance while redress is to put in order again; to set right; to emend; to revise or redress can be to dress again.succor
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Alternative forms
* succourNoun
(-)Synonyms
* (to give assistance) help, aid, assist, support, sustain, relieveAntonyms
* (to give assistance) hurt, damageDerived terms
* succorerAnagrams
* English transitive verbsredress
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.