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Palinode   Listen
noun
Palinode  n.  
1.
An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.
2.
A retraction; esp., a formal retraction.





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"Palinode" Quotes from Famous Books



... Almost "respectable," and well-nigh sage, Dame GRUNDY owns her once redoubted foe, Whose polished paganry's erotic flow, And red anarchic wrath 'gainst priests, and kings, The virtues, and most other "proper" things, Once drew her frown where now her smile's bestowed. Such is the power of timely palinode! Soft twanged his lyre and loud his voice outrang, As the first Bard this moving ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, October 22, 1892 • Various


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