📚 noun • entry_id 49859
palinode
/ˈpælɪnəʊd/
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palinodia
An ode or other poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem; (loosely) a recantation.
... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made an…
2004, Jaspitos, "I Take It Back", in The Spectator (London, UK); Jan 24, 2004. The more lighthearted palinodes were more successful, such as Geoff Horton's recantation of his youth…
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