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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Relating to or of the nature of a palinode.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to a palinode, or retraction.

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Examples

  • In the mean time, an examination before parliament of the ruinous effects of these orders on her own manufacturers, exposing them to the nation and to the world, their Prince issued a palinodial proclamation, suspending the orders on certain conditions, but claiming to renew them at pleasure, as a matter of right.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • In the mean time, an examination before parliament of the ruinous effects of these orders on her own manufacturers, exposing them to the nation and to the world, their Prince issued a palinodial proclamation, suspending the orders on certain conditions, but claiming to renew them at pleasure, as a matter of right.

    Letters 1760

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