Associations to the word «Redound»
Noun
- Glory
- Approbation
- Credit
- Honour
- Praise
- Advantage
- Goodness
- Undertaking
- Benefit
- Honor
- Courtesy
- Profit
- Fame
- Happiness
- Ease
- Wisdom
- Majesty
- Considering
- Deed
- Knight
- Mercy
- Expense
- Seek
- Nation
- Opinion
- Hurt
- Consequence
- Conduct
- Sin
- Prince
- Establishment
- Lord
- Discovery
- God
- Emperor
- Bound
- Person
- King
- Respect
- Truth
- Hi
- Fact
- Enemy
- Manner
- Matter
- All
- Interest
- Senate
- Character
- Good
- Thought
- Presence
- Spirit
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Wiktionary
REDOUND, verb. (obsolete) (intransitive) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids). [14th-19th c.]
REDOUND, verb. (intransitive) To contribute to an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something. [from 15th c.]
REDOUND, verb. (intransitive) To contribute to the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation. [from 15th c.]
REDOUND, verb. (intransitive) To reverberate, to echo. [from 15th c.]
REDOUND, verb. (transitive) To reflect (honour, shame etc.) to or onto someone. [from 15th c.]
REDOUND, verb. (intransitive) To attach, come back, accrue to someone; to reflect back on or upon someone (of honour, shame etc.). [from 16th c.]
REDOUND, verb. (intransitive) To arise from or out of something). [from 16th c.]
REDOUND, verb. To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back.
Dictionary definition
REDOUND, verb. Return or recoil; "Fame redounds to the heroes".
REDOUND, verb. Contribute; "Everything redounded to his glory".
REDOUND, verb. Have an effect for good or ill; "Her efforts will redound to the general good".
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.