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reˈdoublement
[a. F. redoublement (16th c.), or f. redouble v.1 + -ment.]
1. = redoubling vbl. n. 1.
1611Cotgr., Redouble, a redoublement;..a redoubling. 1768Woman of Honor III. 256 To that circumstance it was so plain, my owing her redoublement of attention to me, that I never [etc.]. 1867Mill in Even. Star 10 May, This bill..will have the unrivalled feat of making a redoublement of agitation both inevitable and indispensable.
†2. Med. An increase in severity; a paroxysm. Obs. (Cf. redoubling vbl. n. 2.)
1740tr. De Mouhy's Fort. Country-Maid (1741) II. 304 A frightful Crisis, which at first was thought to be a Redoublement of the Fever. 1753N. Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat 93 Any Diminution in the Redoublements of the Fever.
transf.1878F. A. Kemble Rec. Girlhood I. viii. 215, I fell into a redoublement of weeping. |