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▪ I. redoubling, vbl. n.|rɪˈdʌb(ə)lɪŋ, riːˈdʌblɪŋ|
[f. redouble v.1 (and v.2) + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of redouble v. in various senses.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Redoublement, a redoubling. 1610J. More in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 87 By the redoubling of her griefs on all hands. a1665J. Goodwin Filled w. the Spirit (1867) 111 The redoubling of the negative particle..fortifying the negation. 1681[see anadiplosis]. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. 458 The Progress, Windings, and endless Redoublings of Self-love. 1893Daily News 3 Feb. 5/4 The next re-doubling of the present number of his co-religionists.
b. techn. in spinning (see quot.).
1884McLaren Spinning 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.
c. spec. in Bridge.
1899A. 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. 1908Laws of Auction Bridge §55 Doubling and redoubling affect the score only, and not the value in declaring. 1963G. F. Hervey Handbk. Card Games 134 Doubling and redoubling do not..increase the size of a contract.
†2. A paroxysm. Obs. (Cf. redoublement 2.)
1747tr. Astruc's Fevers 265 A pestilential fever, particularly of the malignant and continued kind with redoublings.
fig.1756Nugent Montesquieu's Spir. Laws xiii. xvii, A new distemper has spread itself over Europe, infecting our princes... It has its redoublings, and of necessity becomes contagious.
▪ II. reˈdoubling, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Doubling, increasing; re-echoing, resounding.
1632Lithgow Trav. viii. 349 Wars..the issue whereof, but retorted to the Duke a redoubling disaduantage. 1717Pope Iliad xii. 298 Redoubling clamours thunder in the skies. 1762–9Falconer Shipwr. i. 799 Redoubling cords the lofty canvas guide. Ibid. ii. 73 One in redoubling mazes wheels along. 1817Scott Harold v. xii, Redoubling echoes roll'd about. 1822Good Study Med. II. 26 The dicrotic, coturnising, and inciduous [pulses], proposed..as mere subvarieties of the rebounding, or redoubling. |