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1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. App. 197 If any contention arise betweene King and Subjects, they may shew themselves Judges and Redressors, lest the Subjects themselves should pronounce sentence in their owne cause.

1704 T. Yalden On Sir Willoughby Aston 7 Patron of Want, Redressor of their Grief: To him th' Afflicted never su'd in vain, He felt their Miseries and eas'd their Pain.

1784 T. Holcroft tr. Foucher d'Obsonville Philos. Ess. Foreign Animals 301 It is true, that mediators and redressors, to satisfy their own or their friends cupidity, have occasioned greater devastations than undisciplined armies.

1812 F. Reynolds Renegade i. ii. 15 Had this [sc. the speaker's sword], so oft' redressor of his wrongs, in single contest but aveng'd my own!

1894 Daily News 11 Dec. 4/7 The Power which has long been the redressor of Christian grievances against the Turk.

1938 I. Barry tr. M. Bardèche & R. Brasillach Hist. Motion Pictures iii. 131 Louis Feuillade's films..gave birth to a new stock figure which persisted for many years, that of the Redressor of Wrongs.

1982 Manch. Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 13 June 21 Robin [Hood], with more human personality than Arthur, survives as..anti-utopian redressor of wrongs.

1854 Western Lancet 15 375 The case was one of anteversion of the uterus, for which the redressor was applied.

1881 A. M. A. Poulet Treat. Foreign Bodies II. v. 175 Many instruments, to which the term redressor or plier has been applied, have been devised for the purpose of extracting foreign bodies from the bladder.

1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons) 441 Redressor, Uterine, (Emmet's)...Redressor, Uterine, (Sims's). [etc.].

1972 Early Care Injured Patient (Amer. Coll. Surgeons) xvi. 317 Bulging of comminuted fragments is overcome by side-to-side compression, preferably with a padded C-clamp or a special calcaneus redressor made for this purpose.