palinode

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Samuel Butler has a palinode, in which he recanted what he said in a previous poem of the Hon. Edward Howard.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

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

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

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