palinode

Example Sentences

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That high praise was once well-deserved, and was cordially given: but since, alas! according to my lights I have seen fit more than once to "palinode."

From My Life as an Author by Tupper, Martin Farquhar

XLIV. may be accepted as a palinode for XLIII.

From Sonnets by Symonds, John Addington

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

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 Reed, John Calvin

His palinode takes the form of a myth.

From Phaedrus by Jowett, Benjamin