palinode
Example Sentences
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His palinode takes the form of a myth.
From Phaedrus by Benjamin Jowett
Well, what am I to do? accept the verdict and hold my tongue? pen a palinode like Stesichorus? or will you grant an appeal?
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
When we do our full duty to him we will, northerners and southerners alike, agree that Whittier’s palinode ought to have gone full circle before it paused.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
I look for peace in the way that Plato trod, and some day I shall write my palinode in that spirit.
From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by Paul Elmer More
He made a kind of palinode to the “trading justice” later, as other people of his kind have done.
From Adventures Among Books by Andrew Lang
