palinode

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I no longer hear the voice of prudence seducing me, as it did a few days since, to a palinode in complicity with a romantic morning of white mist.

From Youth and Egolatry by Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)

His palinode takes the form of a myth.

From Phaedrus by Jowett, Benjamin

XLIV. may be accepted as a palinode for XLIII.

From Sonnets by Symonds, John Addington

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)

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