palinode

Example Sentences

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She punished him by blindness, and he indited a palinode, explaining that it was not she who went to Troy, but a woman fashioned in her likeness, by Zeus, out of mist and light. 

From Adventures Among Books by Lang, Andrew

I no longer hear the voice of prudence seducing me, as it did a few days since, to a palinode in complicity with a romantic morning of white mist.

From Youth and Egolatry by Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)

His palinode takes the form of a myth.

From Phaedrus by Jowett, Benjamin

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

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