GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Redound , 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.]
   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.
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   The evil, soon
   Driven back, redounded as a flood on those
   From whom it sprung.
   Milton.
   
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   The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.
   Rogers.
   
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    both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from them to that manufacture.
   Addison.
   
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   To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.
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   For every dram of honey therein found,
   A pound of gall doth over it redound.
   Spenser.
   
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   Redound, n.
   The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital.
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   We give you welcome; not without redound
   Of use and glory to yourselves ye come.
   Tennyson.
   
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   Rebound; reverberation. [R.]
   Codrington.
   
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