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 Andrew Lang
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 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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 Benjamin Jowett
His palinode takes the form of a myth.
From Phaedrus by Benjamin Jowett
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 Oscar Wilde
