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Definition of Redoubled
1. Adjective. Become much greater in intensity or size or amount. "Despite our redoubled efforts"
Definition of Redoubled
1. Verb. (past of redouble) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Redoubled
1. redouble [v] - See also: redouble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Redoubled
Literary usage of Redoubled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"... in order to divert his mind, no doubt, from gloomy thoughts, redoubled her
attentions. Every afternoon they went out for a drive in her carriage; and, ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"... when he the thunder throws, And fires Typhoeus with redoubled blows, Ver. 95o.
As when angry Jove. ..."
3. The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry : Selected from the Best by Lindley Murray (1821)
"Prosperity i$ redoubled to a good man. 2. Feeble are all pleasures in which the
... But prosperity is redoubled to a good man, by his generous use of it. ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"In order to resist these he applied himself with redoubled diligence to his work,
and studied grammar, rhetoric, and geometry • with all his might. ..."
5. The Talisman: A Tale of the Crusaders by Walter Scott (1878)
"... then redoubled his feeble endearments, as if fearing he had offended his master
by showing a sense of the pain to which his interference had subjected ..."
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