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 Fassett, Jacob S. (Jacob Sloat)
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
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 Wilde, Oscar
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