redound

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REDOUND, verb intransitive [Latin redundo; red, re, and undo, to rise or swell, as waves.] 1. To be sent, rolled or driven back. The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung. 2. To conduce in the consequence; to contribute; to result. The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God the author of it. 3. To proceed in the consequence or effect; to result. There will no small use redound from them to that manufactures.
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