redresser
(rɪˈdrɛsə(r))
[f. as prec. + -er1. Cf. F. redresseur (16th c.).]
One who redresses or rectifies (esp. a wrong). Also = redressor (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1897).
| c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xxxiv. (1869) 154 Of redressere ne of vndertakere thei taken no keepe. 1540 Palsgrave tr. Fullonius' Acolastus iii. iii, That same moste beste redresser or reformer is God, whose hande gouerneth..all thynges. 1565 Jewel Def. Apol. vi. 742 For feare lest they feele him once a redresser, and reuenger of his owne cause. 1612 Shelton Quix. i. iv. xxv, The famous Don Quixote of the Mancha, the righter of wrongs, the redresser of injuries. 1799 H. More Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 27 The fighter of the duel no longer pretends to be a glorious redresser of the wrongs of strangers. 1851 Robertson Serm. Ser. i. xvii. (1866) 298 The redressers of the poor man's wrongs. 1871 B. Taylor Faust (1875) II. iv. iii. 266, I also in my time must meet the sure Redresser. |