Word Meanings - REDOUBTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Formidable; dread. "Some redoubled knight." Spenser. Lord regent, and redoubted Burgandy. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REDOUBTED)

• Doughty
• Redoubted
• redoubtable

Related words: (words related to REDOUBTED)

• REDOUBTABLE
  Formidable; dread; terrible to foes; as, a redoubtable hero;
• REDOUBT
  reductus, literally, a retreat, from L. reductus drawn back, retired, p. p. of reducere to lead or draw back; cf. F. réduit, also fr. LL. A small, and usually a roughly constructed, fort or outwork of varying shape, commonly erected
• REDOUBTING
  Reverence; honor. In redoutyng of Mars and of his glory. Chaucer.
• REDOUBTED
  Formidable; dread. "Some redoubled knight." Spenser. Lord regent, and redoubted Burgandy. Shak.
• DOUGHTY
  Able; strong; valiant; redoubtable; as, a doughty hero. Sir Thopas wex a doughty swain. Chaucer. Doughty families, hugging old musty quarrels to their hearts, buffet each other from generation to generation. Motley. Note: Now seldom used, except