redound

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To swell up (of water, waves etc.)

   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 […].
2. 2

   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.
   • 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.
3. 3

   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.
   • One thing about the ‘John McCain-didn’t-sleep-with-a-lobbyist’ story redounds to the New York Times’ credit.
   • Runciman viewed many of the Crusades’ protagonists with sympathy, but he thought that the movement as a whole was destructive and did not redound to the honour of the faith.
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   1. 4

      To reverberate, to echo.

   2. 5

      To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.

   3. 6

      To attach, come back, accrue to 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.
      • […] that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents.
   4. 7

      To arise from or out of something.

   5. 8

      To roll back

      To roll back; to be sent or driven back.

      • The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.
   6. 9

      A coming back, as an effect or consequence

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

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