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redoubled, ppl. a.|rɪˈdʌb(ə)ld, riː-|
[f. redouble v.1 (and v.2) + -ed2.]
1. a. Increased to double; repeated.
a1542Wyatt in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 59 Who geueth willingly, Redoubled thankes aye doth deserue. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. ii. 23 He..with redoubled buffes them backe did put. 1591― Tears Muses 22 Th' hollow hills from which their silver voyces Were wont redoubled Echoes to rebound. 1631Quarles Div. Poems, Samson sec. viii, His quicke redoubled paces make His stay amends. 1671Milton Samson 923 Where my redoubl'd love and care..May ever tend about thee. 1711W. King tr. Naude's Ref. Politics iii. 105 The king persisted in his resolution..which was followed by the redoubled complaints of his people. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xii. I. 330 The angry and selfish passions of the soldiers..soon broke out with redoubled violence. 1869J. Martineau Ess. II. 228 The memory will..require redoubled precautions against mistake.
b. Music. Increased by an octave.
1811Busby Dict. Mus. (ed. 3) s.v., The thirteenth composed of a sixth and octave is a redoubled sixth; and the fifteenth containing two octaves is a redoubled octave.
c. spec. in Bridge.
1964Official Encycl. Bridge 450/1 When the standard of play is high, redoubled contracts are rare.
2. Doubled, or folded, back or again.
1601Dent Pathw. Heaven (1831) 37 These doubled and redoubled ruffs which are now in common use. c1825Beddoes Poems, Kisses 115 Soft as a snow-tuft in the dew⁓less cup Of a redoubled rose. 1827–8H. Steuart Planter's G. (ed. 2) 248 Taking care, by redoubled folds of mat, to secure the bark against..damage. |