palinode

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This palinode is, no doubt, intended to give a plausible air of fairness to the book, but such a death-bed repentance comes too late, and makes the whole preceding history seem not fair but foolish.

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar

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 More, Paul Elmer

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

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 Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)

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