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1551 R. Crowley Pleasure & Payne sig. Ciiii^v And whye dyd you not set them ryght To seke thynges pleasante in my syght?

1645 C. D'arcy Let. 3 Feb. in S. D'Ewes Autobiogr. & Corr. (1845) II. 308 That little glimpse I have of the study you affect, gives me so much light as to discerne your ability and paines therin, and shall be beholden to you to be sett right where I run away.

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 280 I'll set you right in your opinion of Minos.

1710 J. St. Leger Manager's Pro & Con 35 Sacheverell's part was to set right (as they cant) the young Clergy.

a1734 R. North Life F. North (1742) 26 The more mistaken he found himself, the more violent was he in his Proceedings; as if, by that Means, he was to set himself right.

1787 T. Jefferson Let. 13 Nov. in Papers (1955) XII. 356 The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them.

a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. xiii. 233 I must run after Miss Tilney directly and set her right . View more context for this quotation

1872 T. Hardy Under Greenwood Tree I. ii. iv. 160 A word from the tranter, however, set them right again.

1902 A. E. W. Mason Four Feathers xiv He looks as if he had lost his way. I will go on and put him right.

1949 Amer. Hist. Rev. 55 132 An evident desire to set right Negrophilists in Britain as to the relations of Black and White South Africa.

1997 A. Sivanandan When Memory Dies ii. i. 129 ‘You grandmother is the best person for you,’ she said. ‘She will put you right, and the sooner you go back the better.’

2006 A. McCall Smith Right Attitude to Rain v. 59 He lives round the corner down there. I thought that she got the wrong end of the stick but couldn't set her right.