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.
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vb. (en-past of: redound)
Usage examples of "redounded".
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.