redounding

present participle of redound
as in resulting
formal to have a particular result
used especially to describe how something affects someone or something or affects the opinion that people have about someone or something
+ to
It redounds to his credit that he worked so hard to prevent this crisis.

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“Redounding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redounding. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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