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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as palinode.

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Examples

  • French liberty metamorphosed herself into a fury, he sent back these presents with a palinodia, declaring his abhorrence of their proceedings; and since then be has been more perhaps than enough an

    The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

  • A palinodia, a recantation was necessary to me, and I have achieved it.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

  • A palinodia, a recantation was necessary to me, and I have achieved it.

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Kenyon, Frederic G 1898

  • The effect of punch, after wine, was to make a philosopher argue hotly against his profoundest beliefs; yet it is to Godwin's supper that we owe this diverting palinodia.

    Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873

  • That he wrote under a certain restraint is plain from the Colophon of his book, where he says: "Nihil autem hic ita assertum volo, quod aequiori judicio Catholicae Christi Ecclesiae non omnino submittam, palinodia mox spontanea emendaturus, si erroris alicubi convincar."

    Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

  • But when French liberty metamorphosed herself into a fury, he sent back these presents with a palinodia, declaring his abhorrence of their proceedings: and since then he has been perhaps more than enough an Anti-Gallican.

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • _palinodia_ the Italian makes no effort to discover, and would not, perhaps, accept.

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • CXXXIX, 532, #19) concerning the erroneous substitution of "suscepisti" for "suscepturus" in the verse "Tu ad liberandum suscepturus hominem", etc., in what he styles "Dei palinodia quam composuit Hilarius Pictaviensis episcopus".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

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