palinode

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XLIV. may be accepted as a palinode for XLIII.

From Sonnets by Symonds, John Addington

His conscious has been awakened, and like Stesichorus when he had reviled the lovely Helen he will sing a palinode for having blasphemed the majesty of love.

From Phaedrus by Jowett, Benjamin

She punished him by blindness, and he indited a palinode, explaining that it was not she who went to Troy, but a woman fashioned in her likeness, by Zeus, out of mist and light. 

From Adventures Among Books by Lang, Andrew

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 More, Paul Elmer

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