palinode
Example Sentences
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He made a kind of palinode to the “trading justice” later, as other people of his kind have done.
From Adventures Among Books by Lang, Andrew
His conscious has been awakened, and like Stesichorus when he had reviled the lovely Helen he will sing a palinode for having blasphemed the majesty of love.
From Phaedrus by Jowett, Benjamin
It was this which prompted that rather grandiose but still admirable palinode of Christopher North, in August 1834,—"the Animosities are mortal: but the Humanities live for ever,"—an apology which naturally enough pleased Hunt very much.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George
As if it were any man's business to sing a palinode for another's error; or as if anything that is said in that work of mine under any character whatever, were my own opinion.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius
I no longer hear the voice of prudence seducing me, as it did a few days since, to a palinode in complicity with a romantic morning of white mist.
From Youth and Egolatry by Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)
