redressableadj.
/rᵻˈdrɛsəbl/, U.S. /rəˈdrɛsəb(ə)l/, /riˈdrɛsəb(ə)l/ That can be redressed; allowing redress.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective] > putting right a wrong or loss > put right > able to be
reparable?1549
redressable1648
rightable1891
1648 J. March Reports 80 The Spiritual Court cannot meddle with any thing which is not redressable by them.
1688 Pr. of Orange's Declar., with Animadversions 14 Are they not Redressable by a Parliament?
1797 J. Pinkerton Hist. Scotl. II. xv. 377 If the Scotish borderers made an incursion, such events were provided for by the alliance between the two kingdoms, and were redressable by commissioners.
1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 1 398 It would be well..if these societies occupied themselves more with specific and redressable grievances.
1886 Davenport (Iowa) Gaz. 20 Mar. The anomaly is presented of a strike, which is without redressable grievance.
1925 Amer. Econ. Rev. 15 649 The commission will not take jurisdiction in cases where the alleged violation of law is a purely private controversy redressable in the courts.
2006 Virginia Law Rev. 92 638 The court's effort to base standing doctrine on the concept of redressable injury..has created needless confusion.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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