palinode

Example Sentences

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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)

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

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

XLIV. may be accepted as a palinode for XLIII.

From Sonnets by Symonds, John Addington

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)