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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Re·dound v. i. [imp. & p. p. Redounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Redounding.]
 1. To roll back, as a wave or flood; to be sent or driven back; to flow back, as a consequence or effect; to conduce; to contribute; to result.
 The evil, soon
 Driven back, redounded as a flood on those
 From whom it sprung.   --Milton.
    The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it.   --Rogers.
    both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from them to that manufacture.   --Addison.
 2. To be in excess; to remain over and above; to be redundant; to overflow.
 For every dram of honey therein found,
 A pound of gall doth over it redound.   --Spenser.