redressment

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Etymology

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Noun

redressment (countable and uncountable, plural redressments)

  1. The act of redressing; redress.
    • July 19 1822, Thomas Jefferson, letter to Doctor Waterhouse
      Don Quixote undertook to redress the bodily wrongs of the world, but the 'redressment of mental vagaries would be an enterprise more than Quixotic

References

redressment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.