Redound vs Refound - What's the difference?
redound | refound |
(obsolete) To swell up (of water, waves etc.); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.10:
To contribute (to) an advantage or disadvantage for someone or something.
* Rogers
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock , Bantam Books, p. 448:
To contribute (to) the honour, shame etc. of a person or organisation.
* 2008 , (Peter Preston), The Observer , 2 Mar 2008:
To reverberate, to echo.
To reflect (honour, shame etc.) (to) or (onto) someone.
To attach, come back, accrue (to) someone; to reflect back (on) or (upon) someone (of honour, shame etc.).
To arise (from) or (out of) something).
To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back.
* Milton
In lang=en terms the difference between redound and refound
is that redound is to arise (from) or (out of) something) while refound is to found or cast anew.As verbs the difference between redound and refound
is that redound is (obsolete|intransitive) to swell up (of water, waves etc); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids) while refound is (refind) or refound can be to found again; to reestablish.redound
English
Verb
(en verb)- For every dram of hony therein found / A pound of gall doth over it redound […].
- The honour done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.
- 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.
- One thing about the 'John McCain-didn't-sleep-with-a-lobbyist' story redounds to the New York Times' credit.
- His infamous behaviour only redounded back upon him when he was caught.
- The evil, soon driven back, redounded as a flood on those from whom it sprung.
