palinode
Example Sentences
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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 Reed, John Calvin
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 Erasmus, Desiderius
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 Jowett, Benjamin
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
Well, what am I to do? accept the verdict and hold my tongue? pen a palinode like Stesichorus? or will you grant an appeal?
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)
