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redounding |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Redound \Re*dound"\ (r?*dound"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Redounded}; p. pr & vb n. {Redounding}.] [F. redonder L. redundare pref. red-, re-, re- + undare to rise in waves or surges, fr unda a wave. See {Undulate}, and cf {Redundant}.] 1. To roll back as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back to flow back as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result. The evil, soon Driven back redounded as a flood on those From whom it sprung. --Milton. The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it --Rogers. both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from them to that manufacture. --Addison. 2. To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow. For every dram of honey therein found A pound of gall doth over it redound. --Spenser.
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