palinode
Example Sentences
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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 Paul Elmer More
XLIV. may be accepted as a palinode for XLIII.
From Sonnets by John Addington Symonds
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 George Saintsbury
His palinode takes the form of a myth.
From Phaedrus by Benjamin Jowett
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
