reˈdoublement
[a. F. redoublement (16th c.), or f. redouble v.1 + -ment.]
1. = redoubling vbl. n. 1.
| 1611 Cotgr., Redouble, a redoublement;..a redoubling. 1768 Woman of Honor III. 256 To that circumstance it was so plain, my owing her redoublement of attention to me, that I never [etc.]. 1867 Mill 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.)
| 1740 tr. De Mouhy's Fort. Country-Maid (1741) II. 304 A frightful Crisis, which at first was thought to be a Redoublement of the Fever. 1753 N. Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat 93 Any Diminution in the Redoublements of the Fever. |
| transf. 1878 F. A. Kemble Rec. Girlhood I. viii. 215, I fell into a redoublement of weeping. |