Redoubtable Definition

rĭ-doutə-bəl
adjective
Formidable; fearsome.
A redoubtable foe.
Webster's New World
Commanding respect.
A redoubtable logician.
Webster's New World

Eliciting respect or fear; imposing; awe-inspiring.

The redoubtable New York Times has been called the "newspaper of record" of the United States.
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Origin of Redoubtable

  • Middle English redoubtabel from Old French redoutable from redouter to dread re- re- douter to doubt, fear doubt

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French redoutable (spelled redoubtable in early modern French).

    From Wiktionary

Redoubtable Sentence Examples

  • The Franks were redoubtable warriors, and were generally of great stature.

  • The revolt speedily collapsed before this redoubtable commander, and Alem and the other leaders surrendered.

  • Apart from his redoubtable powers as a controversialist, Philoxenus deserves commemoration as a scholar, an elegant writer, and an exponent of practical Christianity.

  • There the French had found a redoubtable adversary in the young Abd-el-Kader, who had been proclaimed amir at Mascara in 1832.

  • During his term of office there took place the troubles in Rome concerning the English college and the subsequent Jesuit rule over that institution; and in 1580 the first Jesuit mission, headed by the redoubtable Robert Parsons and the saintly Edmund Campion, set out for England.

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