palinode
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Andrew Lang
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
This palinode is, no doubt, intended to give a plausible air of fairness to the book, but such a death-bed repentance comes too late, and makes the whole preceding history seem not fair but foolish.
From Reviews by Oscar Wilde
