Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-DOUND'
RE-DOUND', v.i. [It. ridondare; L. redundo; red, re, and undo, to rise or swell, as waves.]
- To be sent, rolled or driven back. The evil, soon / Driven back, redounded as a flood on those / From whom it sprung. – Milton.
- To conduce in the consequence; to contribute; to result. The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. – Rogers.
- To proceed in the consequence or effect; to result. There will no small use redound from them to that manufacture. – Addison.
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