Definition of "resound"
resound1
verb
third-person singular simple present resounds, present participle resounding, simple past and past participle resounded
(transitive)
To make (sounds), or to speak (words), loudly or reverberatingly.
Quotations
VVith noyſe vvhereof the quyre of Byrds reſounded / their anthemes ſvveet devized of loues prayſe, / that all the vvoods theyr ecchoes back rebounded, / as if they knevv the meaning of their layes.
1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “[Amoretti.] Sonnet XIX”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby; reprinted in Amoretti and Epithalamion (The Noel Douglas Replicas), London: Noel Douglas […], 1927,
[T]ho' Nations, vvhich conſult / Their Gain, at thy Expence, reſound Applauſe.
1744, [Edward Young], “Night the Seventh. Being the Second Part of The Infidel Reclaimed. Containing the Nature, Proof, and Importance, of Immortality.”, in The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, London: […] G. Hawkins, […], page 10
Alleluia thou resoundest, / Salem, Mother ever blest; / Alleluias without ending / Fit yon place of gladsome rest: […]
1852, “Alleluia, dulce carmen”, in Thomas Helmore, editor, Accompanying Harmonies to the Hymnal Noted, London: […] Novello, Ewer and Co., […]; and Masters and Son, […], stanza II, page 234
Of a place: to cause (a sound) to reverberate; to echo.
Quotations
The foreſt wide is fitter to reſound / The hollow Echo of my carefull cryes, […]
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “August. Aegloga Octaua.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […]; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, folio 33, verso
Heare, heare, O heare Iarbus plaining prayers, / VVhose hideous ecchoes make the vvelkin hovvle, / And all the vvoods Eliza to reſound: […]
1594, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash[e], The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage: […], London: […] Widdowe Orwin, for Thomas Woodcocke, […]; reprinted as Dido, Queen of Carthage (Tudor Facsimile Texts; 72), Old English Drama Students’ Facsimile edition, [Amersham, Buckinghamshire: […] [E]ditor of the Tudor Facsimile Texts (i.e., John S. Farmer)], 1914, Act IV
I fled, and cry'd out Death; / Hell trembl'd at the hideous Name, and ſigh'd / From all her Caves, and back reſounded Death.
1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 787–789
The dripping groves resound with cheerful lays, / And melancholy lowings intervene / Of scattered herds, that in the meadow graze, / Some amid lingering shade, some touched by the sun's rays.
a. 1795 (date written), William Wordsworth, “Guilt and Sorrow; or, Incidents upon Salisbury Plain”, in Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; […] (The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth; VII), London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, stanza LVIII, page 34
To praise or spread the fame of (someone or something) with the voice or the sound of musical instruments; to celebrate, to extol; also, to declare (someone) to be a certain thing.
Quotations
This is the famous Promontory of Sigeum, honored vvith the ſepulcher of Achilles, vvhich Alexander (viſiting it in his Aſian expedition) couered vvith flovvers, and ranne naked about it, as then the cuſtome vvas in funerals: ſacrificing to the ghoſt of his kinſman, vvhom he reputed moſt happie, that had ſuch a trumpet as Homer, to reſound his vertues.
1615, George Sandys, “The First Booke”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, page 19
The Warrier his deere skarres no more reſounds, / But ſeems to yeeld Chriſt hath the greater wounds, / Wounds willingly endur'd to work his bliſſe, / Who by an ambuſh loſt his Paradiſe.
, George Herbert, “The Church Militant”, in [Nicholas Ferrar], editor, The Temple: Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, […]; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, […], 1885, page 185
[B]oth Heav'n and Earth ſhall high extoll / Thy praiſes, with th' innumerable ſound / Of Hymns and ſacred Songs, wherewith thy Throne / Encompaſs'd ſhall reſound thee ever bleſt.
1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 146–149
(intransitive)
Of a place: to reverberate with sound or noise.
Quotations
At laſt, vvhen all his mourning melodie / He ended had, that both the ſhores reſounded, / Feeling the fit that him forevvarnd to die, / VVith loftie flight aboue the earth he bounded, / And out of ſight to higheſt heauen mounted: […]
1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Ruines of Time”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […]
Nevv ſorovves / Strike heauen on the face, that it reſounds / As if it felt with Scotland, and yell'd out / Like Syllable of Dolour.
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene iii], page 146, column 1
This ſlaughter vvas foretold by many prodigies. […] In their Senate houſe ſtrange noiſes vvere heard: The Theater reſounded vvith hovvlings and yellings: Houſes vvere ſeene under the vvater of Tamis, and the Arme of the ſea beneath it over flovved the bankes as read as bloud to ſee to, […]
1610, William Camden, “Essex”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, page 448
The Cries of Argonauts for Hylas drovvn'd, / VVith vvhoſe repeated Name the Shoars reſound, / Then mourns the madneſs of the Cretan Queen; / Happy for her if Herds had never been.
1697, Virgil, “The Sixth Pastoral. Or, Silenus.”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], page 28, lines 65–68
There is a fair and ſtately mountain, and its name is Mērŏŏ, […] It is adorned with trees and pleaſant ſtreams, and reſoundeth with the delightful ſongs of various birds.
1785, “[Notes to the Gēētā.] An Episode from the Măhābhārăt, Book I. Chap. 15.”, in Charles Wilkins, transl., The Bhăgvăt-gēētā, or Dialogues of Krĕĕshnă and Ărjŏŏn; […], London: […] C. Nourse, […], page 146
After the celebration of the holy myſteries, Leo [III] ſuddenly placed a precious crovvn on his head, and the dome [of Old St. Peter's Basilica] reſounded vvith the acclamations of the people, "Long life and victory to Charles [i.e., Charlemagne], the moſt pious Auguſtus, crovvned by God the great and pacific emperor of the Romans!"
1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter XLIX, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume V, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], pages 135–136
Of a sound, a voice, etc.: to reverberate; to ring.
Quotations
[T]hou haſt nothing ſayd, / That ſeems, vvith none of thẽ [them] thou fauor foundeſt, / Or art ingratefull to each gentle mayd, / That none of all their due deſerts reſoundeſt.
1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, signature C2, verso
These words, which resounded far through the streets, were accompanied by as many fierce blows, dealt with good effect among those whom the armourer assailed.
1828 May 15, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Chronicles of the Canongate. Second Series. […] (The Fair Maid of Perth), volume I, Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Co.] for Cadell and Co.; London: Simpkin and Marshall, page 102
[S]he owned the motor car, a vehicle adapted to her own requirement; it had a horn which could be worked from the back seat; her weekly journey to church resounded through the village like the Coming of the Lord.
1938 May, Evelyn Waugh, chapter 2, in Scoop: A Novel about Journalists, uniform edition, London: Chapman & Hall, published 1948 (1951 printing), book I (The Stitch Service), page 17
Especially of a musical instrument: to make a (deep or reverberating) sound; also, to make sounds continuously.
Quotations
Full of iron mines it is in ſundry places, […] to vvhich purpoſe divers brookes in many places are brought to runne in one chanell, and ſundry medovves turned into pooles and vvaters, that they might bee of power ſufficient to driue hammer milles, vvhich beating upon the iron, reſound all over the places adjoyning.
1610, William Camden, “Sussex”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, page 306
Betvveen the upright ſhafts of vvhoſe tall elms / VVe may diſcern the threſher at his taſk. / Thump after thump, reſounds the conſtant flail, / That ſeems to ſvving uncertain, and yet falls / Full on the deſtin'd ear.
1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], pages 19–20
Then through the dell his horn resounds, / From vain pursuit to call the hounds.
1810, Walter Scott, “Canto I. The Chase.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, stanza X, page 13
(figuratively)
Of a person, their reputation, etc.: to be much lauded or mentioned.
Quotations
[I]t ſeemes that this place is conuerted into the Paſtoral Arcadia, it is ful of ſhepheards and ſheepfolds, and there is no one part thereof vvherein the name of the beautifull Leandra reſoundeth not: […]
1612, [Miguel de Cervantes], Thomas Shelton, transl., “Relating that which the Goatheard Told to Those that Carried away Don-quixote”, in The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount and W. Barret, part 4, page 583
The cauſe of my comming hither is for foure reſpects. Firſt, to ſee the bleſſed face of your Maiestie, vvhoſe vvonderfull fame hath reſounded ouer all Europe, and the Mahometan Countries.Translation of an oration in the “Persian tongue” to the Mughal Emperor Jahangir.
1625, Thomas Coryat, “A Letter of Mr. Thomas Coryat, which Trauailed by Land from Ierusalem to the Court of the Great Mongol, Written to Mr. L. Whitaker. To which are Added Pieces of Two Other, to Entertayne You with a Little Indian-Odcombian Mirth. ”, in [Samuel] Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 1st part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], 4th book, page 598
resound2
noun
countable and uncountable, plural resounds
(countable) An echoing or reverberating sound; a resounding.
Quotations
Presently, out of the turmoil, the fighting of horses, the resound of blows, the murky cloud of dust and sand, he crawled, in time to see the Corinthian and Byzantine go on down the course after Ben-Hur, who had not been an instant delayed.
1880 November 12, Lew[is] Wallace, chapter XIV, in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], book fifth, pages 375–376
(uncountable) The quality of echoing or reverberating; resonance.
Quotations
And you ô trees (if any life there lies / In trees) now though your porous barkes receave / The straunge resounde of these my causeful cries: […]
c. 1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The Thirde Booke] Chapter 25”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, page 498
Since Virtuous Actions have their own Trumpets, and without any noiſe from thy ſelf will have their reſound abroad; buſy not thy beſt Member in the Encomium of thy ſelf.
c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “Sect[ion] XXXIV”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, part I, page 40
resound3
verb
third-person singular simple present resounds, present participle resounding, simple past and past participle resounded