palinode

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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

XLIV. may be accepted as a palinode for XLIII.

From Sonnets by Symonds, John Addington

His palinode takes the form of a myth.

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

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