palinode
Example Sentences
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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 Reed, John Calvin
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
Samuel Butler has a palinode, in which he recanted what he said in a previous poem of the Hon. Edward Howard.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham
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
His palinode takes the form of a myth.
From Phaedrus by Jowett, Benjamin
