redounding

Verb

redound (third-person singular simple present redounds, present participle redounding, simple past and past participle redounded)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
   • For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
2. (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
   • The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.a. 1729, John Rogers, A prudent cobduct recommended and enforced
3. (intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
   • I did not omit even our Sports and Paſtimes, or any other Particular which I thought might redound to the Honour of my Country.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Several Contrivances of the Author to Please the King and Queen. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I...
4. (intransitive) To reverberate, to echo.
5. (transitive) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone.
6. (intransitive) To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.).
   • His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.

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