palinode
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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
His palinode takes the form of a myth.
From Phaedrus by Benjamin Jowett
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 Martin Farquhar Tupper
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 George Saintsbury
Socrates or Archilochus would soon have to sing a palinode for the injustice done to lovely Helen, or some misfortune worse than blindness might be fall them.
From Phaedrus by Benjamin Jowett
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