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Webster 1913 Edition
Redound
Re-dound′
(r?-dound′)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Redounded
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Redounding
.] 1.
To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.
The evil, soon
Driven back,
From whom it sprung.
Driven back,
redounded
as a flood on thoseFrom whom it sprung.
Milton.
The honor done to our religion ultimately
redounds
to God, the author of it. Rogers.
both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use
redound
from them to that manufacture. Addison.
2.
To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.
For every dram of honey therein found,
A pound of gall doth over it
A pound of gall doth over it
redound
. Spenser.
Re-dound′
,Noun.
1.
The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.
We give you welcome; not without
Of use and glory to yourselves ye come.
redound
Of use and glory to yourselves ye come.
Tennyson.
2.
Rebound; reverberation.
[R.]
Codrington.
Webster 1828 Edition
Redound
REDOUND
,Verb.
I.
1.
To be sent, rolled or driven back.The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.
2.
To conduce in the consequence; to contribute; to result.The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God the author of it.
3.
To proceed in the consequence or effect; to result.There will no small use redound from them to that manufactures.
Definition 2024
redound
redound
English
Verb
redound (third-person singular simple present redounds, present participle redounding, simple past and past participle redounded)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids). [14th-19th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:
- For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:
- (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something. [from 15th c.]
- Rogers
- The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.
- 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, p. 448:
- The fact that in one case the advance redounds to private advantage and in the other, theoretically, to the public good, does not alter the core assumptions common to both.
- Rogers
- (intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation. [from 15th c.]
- 2008, Peter Preston, The Observer, 2 Mar 2008:
- One thing about the 'John McCain-didn't-sleep-with-a-lobbyist' story redounds to the New York Times' credit.
- 2008, Peter Preston, The Observer, 2 Mar 2008:
- (intransitive) To reverberate, to echo. [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone. [from 15th c.]
- (intransitive) To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.). [from 16th c.]
- His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.
- (intransitive) To arise from or out of something. [from 16th c.]
- To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back.
- Milton
- The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.
- Milton
Translations
to result in, contribute to
to come back, accrue upon