palinode
Example Sentences
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XLIV. may be accepted as a palinode for XLIII.
From Sonnets by John Addington Symonds
His palinode takes the form of a myth.
From Phaedrus by Benjamin Jowett
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 Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat) Fassett
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
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
