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redoubted, ppl. a.|rɪˈdaʊtɪd|
[f. redoubt v. + -ed1.]
Feared or dreaded; reverenced, respected; noted, distinguished.
Very common in 15–17th c. in addressing sovereigns.
1417in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 55 Unto there soveraigne and redoubted liege Lord. 1464Rolls of Parlt. V. 527/2 Oure right redoubted Fader of noble memorie. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xi. (Percy Soc.) 42 How redoubted Hercules by puyssaunce Fought with an ydre. 1547in Vicary's Anat. (1888) App. iii. 131 Our late most redowtyd souereygn lorde, Kinge Henrye the viijth. 1600Holland Livy xxi. xli. 416 Can it be thought then, that..I fell by chance and at unwares upon this drad and redoubted enemie? 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry Diss. i. 14 Arthur having killed this redoubted knight. 1815Scott Ld. of Isles v. xxix, Nor better was their lot who fled, And met..The Douglas's redoubted spear! 1861Thackeray Four Georges iv. (1862) 204 The prime minister himself, the redoubted William Pitt. |