Redound vs Renown - What's the difference?
redound | renown |
(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
Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
* Dryden
* 1922 , (James Joyce), '' Episode 12, ''The Cyclops
Reports of nobleness or exploits; praise.
* Shakespeare
As a verb redound
is (obsolete|intransitive) to swell up (of water, waves etc); to overflow, to surge (of bodily fluids).As a noun renown is
fame; celebrity; wide recognition.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.
Anagrams
* *renown
English
Noun
(-)- Nor envy we thy great renown , nor grudge thy victory.
- There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown .
- This famous duke of Milan, / Of whom so often I have heard renown .