Sekirov Dictionary

redound

/ɹɪˈdaʊnd/

verb 8
noun 1
forms 4

verb8

•
To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
- The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. — 1729
•
To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
- I did not omit even our Sports and Pastimes, or any other Particular which I thought might redound to the Honour of my Country. — 1726
To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.
•
To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.).
- His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.
To arise from or out of something.
To reverberate, to echo.
•
To roll back; to be sent or driven back.
- The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung. — 1667
•
(no longer used) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
- For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […]. — 1596

noun1

A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.

forms

redounded · redounding · redoundeth · redounds

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