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