remedy
/ˈɹɛmədi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Something that corrects or counteracts.
noun
The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.
Example Sentences
- "Beautie alone is a ſoveraigne remedy againſt feare,griefe,and all melancholy fits; a charm,as Peter de la Seine and many other writers affirme,a banquet it ſelfe;he gives inſtance in diſcontented Menelaus that was ſo often freed by Helenas faire face: and ʰTully, 3 Tusc. cites Epicurus as a chiefe patron of this Tenent."
- "1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared."
- "Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,"