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Redound
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- 1 A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.
- 1 To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids). intransitive, obsolete
"For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […]."
- 2 have an effect for good or ill wordnet
- 3 To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something. intransitive
"The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it."
- 4 contribute wordnet
- 5 To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation. intransitive
"I did not omit even our Sports and Paſtimes, or any other Particular which I thought might redound to the Honour of my Country."
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- 6 return or recoil wordnet
- 7 To reverberate, to echo. intransitive
- 8 To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone. transitive
- 9 To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.). intransitive
"His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught."
- 10 To arise from or out of something. intransitive
- 11 To roll back; to be sent or driven back. intransitive, usually
"The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung."
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman redunder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin redundō, from red- + undō (“surge”), from unda (“a wave”).
From Anglo-Norman redunder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin redundō, from red- + undō (“surge”), from unda (“a wave”).
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