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Definition of Redoubtable
1. Adjective. Inspiring fear. "Something unnerving and prisonlike about high grey wall"
2. Adjective. Worthy of respect or honor. "Born of a redoubtable family"
Definition of Redoubtable
1. a. Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero; hence, valiant; -- often in contempt or burlesque.
Definition of Redoubtable
1. Adjective. Eliciting respect or fear; imposing; awe-inspiring. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Redoubtable
1. doubtable [adj] - See also: doubtable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Redoubtable
Literary usage of Redoubtable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Can Grande's Castle by Amy Lowell (1918)
"Guns of the Victory, guns of the redoubtable, exploding incessantly, making one
long draw of sound. Rattling upon it, rain on a tin roof, the pop-pop of ..."
2. Letters of Edward FitzGerald by Edward FitzGerald (1894)
"... say that some one sent me a number of your American ' Nation' with a Review
of my redoubtable Agamemnon : written by a superior hand, and, I think, ..."
3. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"This essay is no contribution to the redoubtable Irish question, and yet a general
view of the second Revolution and of the establishment of the Commercial ..."
4. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1903)
"This essay is no contribution to the redoubtable Irish question, and yet a general
view of the second Revolution and of the establishment of the Commercial ..."
5. Strikers, Communists, Tramps and Detectives by Allan Pinkerton (1878)
"... SOME ACCOUNT OF THE redoubtable " BOSS " AMMON. A MOST remarkable feature of
the troubles at Pittsbu and vicinity was the exceptional good behavior of ..."
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