c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 52 (MED) If y schulde endure so in such doubling into how euer long..y schulde euer fynde more bifore me in passage vnmesurable þan al þat is take bi such doublyng and redoublyng.

1594 J. Smythe Certen Instr. Militarie 39 There is another order of forming of a Squadron by doubling and redoubling of the compertiments vpon the backe of the first compertiment.

1654 J. Newton Institutio Mathematica i. v. 125 By often doubling and redoubling of that Logarithme so found (according to the number of the continual meanes produced) in conclusion you shall fall upon the Logarithme of the number given.

1695 J. Ward Compend. Algebra x. 98 That Product will be the Logarithm of the given Number (without a continued doubling and redoubling as before).

1714 J. Skidmore Primitive Simplicity Demonstrated ii. 118 His doubling and redoubling of his Assertions and Observations upon divers such like Instances..being falacious the Consequences and Inferences deduced there from, all come to nothing.

1884 W. S. B. McLaren Spinning Woollen & Worsted 239 There is a second form of twisting called re-doubling, which is chiefly used for carpet yarn. It is for twisting two or more threads together that have already been each made into two-fold.

1995 C. DeTar in R. C. Hwa Quark-gluon Plasma 2 6 Either we give up chiral symmetry or we much have a doubling (usually a few redoublings) of the number of quark species.

2007 J. Field et al. Amer. Silk, 1830–1930 xiii. 103 In due course, the silk passed through more than a dozen steps, including washing, winding, cleaning, throwing (sometimes called spinning), doubling, redoubling, steaming and reeling.

1899 A. Dunn Bridge 63 Doubling and Redoubling... After the trump suit is announced, the adversaries may ‘double’ the value of the suit selected... The dealer and his partner may redouble.

1908 Laws of Auction Bridge §55 Doubling and redoubling affect the score only, and not the value in declaring.

1963 G. F. Hervey Handbk. Card Games 134 Doubling and redoubling do not..increase the size of a contract.

1998 Eng. Bridge Aug. 15/2 Roe was writing about the original form of bridge: one side could declare the denomination in which to play, and doubling and redoubling was allowed, but there was no bidding as such.

?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 244 Her sorowe redowblid and grewe In this redoublyng she wrote yet a nother lettre whiche she sente to hercules.

1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. lii. f. 303^v That which might haue bene the augmenting of my contentation, is nowe the redoubling of my sorrow.

1610 J. More in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 87 The redoubling of her griefs on all hands.

a1665 J. Goodwin Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόv (1670) vi. 117 The redoubling of the Negative Particle..fortifying the Negation.

a1679 T. Hobbes Art of Rhetoric (1681) iv. iv. 148 A Redoubling called Anadyplosis; or a pleasant climing, called Clymax. Redoubling is when the same sound is repeated in the end of the former Sentence, and the beginning of the Sentence following. As, Psal. 9. 8. ‘The Lord also will be a refuge to the poor, a refuge, I say, in due time.’

1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. viii. 625 In Verse, every Reader knows such a Redoubling of Epithets would not be tolerable.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. 458 The Progress, Windings, and endless Redoublings of Self-love.

1826 Monthly Mag. Apr. 375 Does this augmentation of the raw materials—does the redoubling of the manufacture, look like apprehension of the direful effects?

1893 Daily News 3 Feb. 5/4 The next re-doubling of the present number of his co-religionists.

1982 J. Culler On Deconstruction (1983) ii. 189 The structural redoubling of any signified as an interpretable signifier does suggest that the realm of signifiers acquires a certain autonomy.

2003 New Yorker 18 Aug. 22/1 Globalization produces interesting reversals and redoublings of cultural exchange.

1747 tr. J. Astruc Academical Lect. Fevers 265 A pestilential fever, particularly of the malignant and continued kind with redoublings.

1756 T. Nugent tr. C.-L. de S. de Montesquieu Spirit of Laws xiii. xvii A new distemper has spread itself over Europe, infecting our princes... It has its redoublings, and of necessity becomes contagious.

1575 E. Hake Commemoration Raigne Lady Elizabeth sig. C ^v By her inspired by thee..the bloudy lawnces & claunching Murreans, and redoublinge shieldes, haue ben shattered asunder in shiuers.

c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 67 No corslat..Mycht the redoubleing dochtie dints defend.

1597 R. Johnson 2nd Pt. Famous Hist. Seauen Champions xi. sig. Q4^v Comming to the gate and finding it lockt, hee knockt thereat so furiously, that hee made the noyse to resound all the house ouer, with a redoubling Eccho.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 349 Wars..the issue whereof, but retorted to the Duke a redoubling disaduantage.

1680 P. Belon tr. S. Brémond Pilgrim 70 He advances with redoubling joys of Love which he could hardly contain in his heart.

1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. xii. 298 Redoubling Clamours thunder in the Skies.

1769 W. Falconer Shipwreck (ed. 3) ii. 50 One, in redoubling mazes, wheels along.

1817 W. Scott Harold v. xi. 153 Redoubling echoes roll'd about.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 26 The dicrotic, coturnizing, and inciduous, proposed..as mere sub-varieties of the rebounding, or redoubling [pulses].

a1914 ‘M. Field’ Ras Byzance in Deirdre (1918) 144 A Wandatch bee in spring... Each hum made keen my sword-blade to deliver My ears from that redoubling monotone.

2001 C. van Boheemen-Saaf in C. van Boheemen-Saaf & C. Lamos Masculinities in Joyce 258 Its final affirmative and redoubled ‘yes’—also object of Derrida's commentary—may also betray the redoubling echo of subaltern self-consciousness.