redressive
English
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edit- Rhymes: -ɛsɪv
Adjective
editredressive (comparative more redressive, superlative most redressive)
- Tending to redress.
- a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
- And here can I forget the generous band
Who touch'd with human woe, redressive search'd
Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ?