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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Anglo-Norman redunder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin rēdundō, from rē + undō (“surge”), from unda (“a wave”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]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, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […].
- (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something. [from 15th c.]
- a. 1729, John Rogers, A prudent cobduct recommended and enforced:
- The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.
- 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, page 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.
- (intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation. [from 15th c.]
- 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Several Contrivances of the Author to Please the King and Queen. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 259:
- I did not omit even our Sports and Paſtimes, or any other Particular which I thought might redound to the Honour of my Country.
- 2008 March 2, Peter Preston, The Observer:
- One thing about the ‘John McCain-didn’t-sleep-with-a-lobbyist’ story redounds to the New York Times’ credit.
- 2019, Αντώνιος Καλδέλλης [Anthony Kaldellis], Byzantium Unbound (Past Imperfect), Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, →ISBN, chapter 4: “Byzantium Was Not Medieval”, pages 87–88:
- Runciman viewed many of the Crusades’ protagonists with sympathy, but he thought that the movement as a whole was destructive and did not redound to the honour of the faith.
- (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.
- 2022, China Miéville, chapter 3, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
- […] that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents.
- (intransitive) To arise from or out of something. [from 16th c.]
- (intransitive, of a wave, flood, etc.) To roll back; to be sent or driven back.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.
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[edit]Translations
[edit]to result in, contribute to
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to come back, accrue upon
Noun
[edit]redound (plural redounds)
- A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.
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