redressive

adj

redressive

adj

Etymology From redress + -ive.

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 ?a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:

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