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What's The Definition Of 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.
\Re*dound"\, n. 1. The coming back, as of consequence or effect; result; return; requital. We give you welcome; not without redound Of use and glory to yourselves ye come. --Tennyson. 2. Rebound; reverberation. [R.] --Codrington.