'Redound' definitions:
Definition of 'redound'
(from WordNet)
verb
Return or recoil; "Fame redounds to the heroes"
verb
Contribute; "Everything redounded to his glory"
verb
Have an effect for good or ill; "Her efforts will redound to the general good"
Definition of 'Redound'
From: GCIDE
- Redound \Re*dound"\, n.
- 1. The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital. [1913 Webster]
- We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Rebound; reverberation. [R.] --Codrington. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Redound'
From: GCIDE
- Redound \Re*dound"\ (r?*dound"), 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.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The evil, soon Driven back, redounded as a flood on those From whom it sprung. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. --Rogers. [1913 Webster]
- both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from them to that manufacture. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow. [1913 Webster]
- For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of gall doth over it redound. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]