redound Meaning, Definition & Usage

verb return or recoil
- Fame redounds to the heroes
verb contribute
- Everything redounded to his glory
verb have an effect for good or ill
- Her efforts will redound to the general good

F. redonder, L. redundare; pref. red-, re-, re- + undare to rise in waves or surges, fr. unda a wave. See Undulate, and cf. Redundant.

imperfect & past participle Redounded; present participle & verbal noun Redounding

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.
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.

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.
Rebound; reverberation. R. Codrington.