# redound
## English
### Etymology

From Anglo-Norman redunder, Middle French redonder, and their source, Latin rēdundō, from rē + undō (“surge”), from unda (“a wave”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /ɹɪˈdaʊnd/, /ɹəˈdaʊnd/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -aʊnd

### Verb

redound (third-person singular simple present redounds, present participle redounding, simple past and past participle redounded)
* (obsolete, intransitive) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids). [14th–19th c.]
** 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […].
* (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something. [from 15th c.]
** a. 1729, John Rogers, A prudent cobduct recommended and enforced:The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.
** 1970, Alvin Toffler, Future Shock, Bantam Books, page 448:The fact that in one case the advance redounds to private advantage and in the other, theoretically, to the public good, does not alter the core assumptions common to both.
* (intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation. [from 15th c.]
** 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, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 259:I did not omit even our Sports and Paſtimes, or any other Particular which I thought might redound to the Honour of my Country.
** 2008 March 2, Peter Preston, The Observer:One thing about the ‘John McCain-didn’t-sleep-with-a-lobbyist’ story redounds to the New York Times’ credit.
** 2019, Αντώνιος Καλδέλλης [Anthony Kaldellis], Byzantium Unbound (Past Imperfect), Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, →ISBN, chapter 4: “Byzantium Was Not Medieval”, pages 87–88:Runciman viewed many of the Crusades’ protagonists with sympathy, but he thought that the movement as a whole was destructive and did not redound to the honour of the faith.
* (intransitive) To reverberate, to echo. [from 15th c.]
* (transitive) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone. [from 15th c.]
* (intransitive) To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.). [from 16th c.]
    His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.
** 2022, China Miéville, chapter 3, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:[…] that is, they concede the accuracy of certain classic attacks on communism, but in ways that redound on their opponents.
* (intransitive) To arise from or out of something. [from 16th c.]
* (intransitive, of a wave, flood, etc.) To roll back; to be sent or driven back.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.

#### Related terms

* redundance
* redundancy
* redundant

#### Translations
### Noun

redound (plural redounds)
* A coming back, as an effect or consequence; a return.

### Anagrams

* rounded, underdo