Crossword clues for redound
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Redound \Re*dound"\ (r?*dound"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Redounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Redounding.] [F. redonder, L. redundare; pref. red-, re-, re- + undare to rise in waves or surges, fr. unda a wave. See Undulate, and cf. Redundant.]
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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, redounded as a flood on those From 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.
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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 redound.
--Spenser.
Redound \Re*dound"\, n.
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The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.
We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come.
--Tennyson. Rebound; reverberation. [R.]
--Codrington.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to overflow," from Old French redonder "overflow, abound, be in profusion" (12c.), from Latin redundare "to overflow" (see redundant). Meaning "to flow or go back" (to a place or person) is from late 14c.; hence "to rebound" (c.1500), and "to contribute to" (the credit, honor, etc.), early 15c. Related: Redounded; redounding.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context obsolete intransitive English) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids). (14th-19th c.) 2 (context intransitive English) To contribute (term: to) an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something. (from 15th c.) 3 (context intransitive English) To contribute (term: to) the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation. (from 15th c.) 4 (context intransitive English) To reverberate, to echo. (from 15th c.) 5 (context transitive English) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) (term: to) or (term: onto) someone. (from 15th c.) 6 (context intransitive English) To attach, come back, accrue (term: to) someone; to reflect back (term: on) or (term: upon) someone (of honour, shame etc.). (from 16th c.) 7 (context intransitive English) To arise (term: from) or (term: out of) something). (from 16th c.) 8 To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back.
WordNet
v. be excessive in quantity
be deflected; "His actions redound on his parents"
be added; "Everything he does redounds to himself"
have an effect for good or ill; "Her efforts will redound to the general good"
Usage examples of "redound".
Whatever she did that was not acceptable to the Gevethen would redound manyfold on these servants.
Indeed, according to Fallopius, another famous scientist, the Duke of Tuscany would occasionally send live criminals to be vivisected, thus making their punishment redound to the benefit of science.
We bear a request from the Khan of All Khans of the Mongols, and it can only redound to the good of all Europe and Mother Church.
The ignorant Bohemians are astonished when I tell them that I regard the letter as redounding to my glory, and that if their ears were not quite so long their blame would be turned into praise.
And both, among many other good ones, may assign this solid reason for their conduct, that by these means the greater glory redounds to them if they gain the victory, and the less disgrace if by any unlucky accident they should happen to be conquered.
Subjects and children: we have reason to be proud of an art that redounds to the honor and glory of Prussia.
It was of no use to recall the many instances where praise to the face had redounded to the everlasting honor of praiser and bepraised.
The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses, that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.
When King Ban came into the battle, he came in so fiercely that the strokes redounded again from the wood and the water.
He knew that this tale redounded to the glory of our arms and so one had to pretend not to doubt it.
So it was within tradition for the high chief to devise justifications for sendÂing his warriors forth: if they triumphed, their victory would redound on him.