Redound

Definition of Redound

Re`dound´ Pronunciation: r?`dound´

v. i.	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. [imp. & p. p. Redounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Redounding.] 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. - 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 redound. - Spenser.
n.	1.	The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital. We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. - Tennyson.
	2.	Rebound; reverberation.

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