palinode

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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

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 Jowett, Benjamin

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 Greg, Walter W.

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 Wilde, Oscar

XLIV. may be accepted as a palinode for XLIII.

From Sonnets by Symonds, John Addington