palinode
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XLIV. may be accepted as a palinode for XLIII.
From Sonnets by John Addington Symonds
I look for peace in the way that Plato trod, and some day I shall write my palinode in that spirit.
From The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance by Paul Elmer More
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 Desiderius Erasmus
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 Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat) Fassett
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 George Saintsbury
