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Definition of Redressers
1. redresser [n] - See also: redresser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Redressers
Literary usage of Redressers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1830)
"Fiction was confounded with truth; and at length it came to be thought that the
roads of Europe were really covered with wandering redressers of wrong in ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1873)
"... with redressers, knives, scissors, tents, and numberless bandages ; with
pessaries, vaginal and intra-uterine, the gynaecologist has been moving about ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1856)
"... such being the relative advantages of accusers and accused, the picked gentlemen
of England, the redressers of wrongs, the indignant denouncers of every ..."
4. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1844)
"They have rather borne the character of redressers of grievances, and have been
decidedly conservative. It is true that the Long Parliament abolished the ..."
5. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"In spite of the tyrannous laws which banded men together in the forests, and the
oppressions which invested robbers with the character of redressers of ..."
6. The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke by Hugh A. Garland (1851)
"Do gentlemen assume the lofty port and tone of chivalrous redressers of maritime
wrongs, and declare their readiness to surrender every other maritime right ..."
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