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
That high praise was once well-deserved, and was cordially given: but since, alas! according to my lights I have seen fit more than once to "palinode."
From My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper
As if it were any man's business to sing a palinode for another's error; or as if anything that is said in that work of mine under any character whatever, were my own opinion.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus
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 John Calvin Reed
The princess Leonora remonstrated with her poet on his folly, and Tasso, by way of palinode, wrote a fulsome commentary on three of Pigna's wooden canzoni, ranking them with Petrarch's.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg
