redound
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Anglo-Norman redounder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin rēdundō, from rē + undō (“surge”), from unda (“a wave”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
redound (third-person singular simple present redounds, present participle redounding, simple past and past participle redounded)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids). [14th-19th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:
- For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.10:
- (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something. [from 15th c.]
- 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, p. 448:
- The fact that in one case the advance redounds to private advantage and in the other, theoretically, to the public good, does not alter the core assumptions common to both.
- 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, p. 448:
- (intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation. [from 15th c.]
- 2008, Peter Preston, The Observer, 2 Mar 2008:
- One thing about the 'John McCain-didn't-sleep-with-a-lobbyist' story redounds to the New York Times' credit.
- 2008, Peter Preston, The Observer, 2 Mar 2008:
- (intransitive) To reverberate, to echo. [from 15th c.]
- (transitive) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone. [from 15th c.]
- (intransitive) To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.). [from 16th c.]
- His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.
- (intransitive) To arise from or out of something). [from 16th c.]
Translations [edit]
to result in, contribute to
to come back, accrue upon
