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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.