redoubt

Noun (1)

redoubt (plural redoubts)

1. A small, temporary, military fortification.
2. A reinforced refuge; a fort.
3. A place of safety or refuge.
   • To the south, the vast geometrical deserts of Arabian nomads, a redoubt of feral movement, of fickle winds, of open space, of saddle leather—home to the wild Bedouin tribes.2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text

Verb (1)

redoubt (third-person singular simple present redoubts, present participle redoubting, simple past and past participle redoubted)

1. (transitive) To fortify, to make into a stronghold.
   • By the time that our troops had taken a little refreshment, a quantity of intrenching tools were brought a-shore, and the regiments were employed in redoubting our ground, and landing some cannon and ammunition.1769, John Knox, An Historical Journal Of The Campaigns in North-America, page 72
   • I have been employed from the day of action to that of the capitulation, in redoubting our Camp beyond insult1815, William Smith, History of Canada: From Its First Discovery, to the Year 1791, page 35

Verb (2)

redoubt (third-person singular simple present redoubts, present participle redoubting, simple past and past participle redoubted)

1. (archaic) To dread.

Verb (3)

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redoubt (third-person singular simple present redoubts, present participle redoubting, simple past and past participle redoubted)

1. (rare) To doubt again.
   • Neither any of ſo many hundreds of expleaded, or nowe raigning hereſies, or any that ſhall ariſe hereafter, nor the Religion of Martine Luther so often profeſſed, and both priuately and publickly recanted, altered, changed, doubted, and redoubted by himſelfe, as his owne works and all proteſtants...1601, R. Broughton, An apologicall epistle, page 20
   • Herr Fessler, in the true spirit of a metaphysical Zittémteur, has taken the subject up in the most orthodox style of Fog; descanting, and doubting, and redoubting, until the Fog becomes positively impervious1860, George Augustus Sala, Looking at Life: Or, Thoughts and Things

Noun (2)

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redoubt (plural redoubts)

1. (rare) The return of doubt.
   • Undeterred by humble beginning, undaunted by frustrations imposed by others of lesser stature, undismayed by the doubts and redoubts of personal, political and elemental forces, he persevered, he pursued and he prevailed1963, Clarence J. Crossland, The lady balances her scales
   • My stock is a 3-1 bet to split by then, providing I have the guts to stonewall the supreme court of last resort, Key Biscayne, with my claim to gutlessly (i.e., physically unreally) surrounding the citadel with a mote in the beam of the Don, my brother's eye, a doubt and redoubt in the possibility...1977, Saul Finkel, The circular seesaw