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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Redoubtable \Re*doubt"a*ble\ (-?*b'l), a. [F. redoutable,
formerly also spelt redoubtable.]
Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as a redoubtable hero;
hence valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque. [Written
also {redoutable}.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
redoubtable
adj 1: inspiring fear; "the formidable prospect of major surgery";
"a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the
heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic"- G.H.Johnston;
"something unnerving and prisonlike about high gray
wall" [syn: {formidable}, {unnerving}]
2: having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the
Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family" [syn: {glorious},
{illustrious}, {respected}]
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