Meaning & use
Redresser
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A person or thing that corrects, remedies, or sets right a wrong or grievance.
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The reformer styled himself as a redresser of injustices ignored by the courts.
The new ombudsman was billed as a redresser of long-standing tenant complaints.
A note on using this word
The word survives mainly in formal or literary writing; the more common modern phrasing would simply be "someone who redresses" a wrong.
Words with a similar meaning
rectifier
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