Bedoubt vs Redoubt - What's the difference?
bedoubt | redoubt |
(obsolete) To dread; respect; renown.
*1470 , Hardyng, Chronicle :
A small, temporary, military fortification.
A reinforced refuge; a fort.
A place of safety or refuge.
* 2014, (Paul Salopek), Blessed. Cursed. Claimed. , National Geographic (December 2014)[http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text]
As verbs the difference between bedoubt and redoubt
is that bedoubt is to dread; respect; renown while redoubt is to dread.As a noun redoubt is
a small, temporary, military fortification.bedoubt
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*Verb
(en verb)- Above all men he was there moste bedoute .
redoubt
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(wikipedia redoubt)Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- To the south, the vast geometrical deserts of Arabian nomads, a redoubt of feral movement, of fickle winds, of open space, of saddle leather—home to the wild Bedouin tribes.