remedy

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"Your remedy," said the Senator, "is delusive; your remedy is no remedy at all; and to hold it up to the world as a remedy is a gross fraud, however pious it may be.

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  1. noun Something, such as medicine or therapy, that relieves pain, cures disease, or corrects a disorder.
  2. noun Something that corrects an evil, fault, or error.
  3. noun Law A legal order of preventing or redressing a wrong or enforcing a right.
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  • The meta level template of the remedy is the principle of loose coupling. —  Planet TW
  • The reason for concluding that this remedy was the most appropriate was that, knowing that evidence unlawfully seized could not be used against a defendant, this would deter police from unreasonable searches and seizures. —  Simple Justice
  • Perhaps your remedy is the newly heralded refinance program expected to target another 5 million homeowners. —  Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories
  • However, I think the mistake in direst need of a remedy is your setting your boyfriend up as a scapegoat. —  OnlineAthens: Top Headlines
  • And so the remedy should be a period in which government lays low and lets the markets work through these shocks. —  Forbes.com: News
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cure ·  medicine ·  treatment ·  precaution ·  explanation ·  punishment ·  measure ·  provision ·  reform ·  resource ·  solution ·  assistance

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remedy:   remedies ·  remedied
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  1. Middle English remedie, from Old French, from Latin remedium : re-, re- + medērī, to heal; see med- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, French remède =Provencal remedi, remeyi =Spanish Portuguese Italian remedio, from Latin remedium, a remedy, cure, from re-, again, + mederi, heal: see medicine. Cf. remede.
  2. from late Middle English remedyen, from Old French remedier, French remédier =Provencal Spanish Portuguese remediar =Italian rimediare, from Latin remediare, remediari, heal, cure, from remedium, a remedy: see remedy, n.
 

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