Definition of "redound"

redound

/ɹɪˈdaʊnd/

verb
third-person singular simple present redounds, present participle redounding, simple past and past participle redounded
1. (obsolete, intransitive) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
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  For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […].
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
2. (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
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  The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.
  a. 1729, John Rogers, A prudent cobduct recommended and enforced
  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, page 448
3. (intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
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  I did not omit even our Sports and Paſtimes, or any other Particular which I thought might redound to the Honour of my Country.
  1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Several Contrivances of the Author to Please the King and Queen. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 259
  One thing about the ‘John McCain-didn’t-sleep-with-a-lobbyist’ story redounds to the New York Times’ credit.
  2008 March 2, Peter Preston, The Observer
  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.
  2019, Αντώνιος Καλδέλλης [Anthony Kaldellis], Byzantium Unbound (Past Imperfect), Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, chapter 4: “Byzantium Was Not Medieval”, pages 87–88
4. (intransitive) To reverberate, to echo.
5. (transitive) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.
6. (intransitive) To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.).
  Quotations
  […] that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents.
  2022, China Miéville, chapter 3, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
7. (intransitive) To arise from or out of something.
8. (intransitive, of a wave, flood, etc.) To roll back; to be sent or driven back.
  Quotations
  The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.
  1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
noun
plural redounds
1. A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.

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