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

It was this which prompted that rather grandiose but still admirable palinode of Christopher North, in August 1834,—"the Animosities are mortal: but the Humanities live for ever,"—an apology which naturally enough pleased Hunt very much.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George

His palinode takes the form of a myth.

From Phaedrus by Jowett, Benjamin

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

XLIV. may be accepted as a palinode for XLIII.

From Sonnets by Symonds, John Addington