palinode

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Finally, there is Prince Charming, a young man named Paul who is much given to writing palinodes in his bath.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some critics even who have done its separate authors justice, have subsequently indulged in palinodes, have talked about decadence and Alexandrianism and what not.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

I'd publish books, I would--large books on ants and antinomes And palimpsests and palinodes and pallid pallindromes: But I wouldn't be a publisher if .

From A Book for Kids by Dennis, C. J. (Clarence James)

Such was the "Anacreon Recantatus," by Carolus de Aquino, a Jesuit, published 1701, which consisted of a series of palinodes to the several songs of our poet.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael

There is not the slightest reason to suppose that the Hesperides were wholly péchés de jeunesse and the Noble Numbers wholly pious palinodes.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George