Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A poem in which the author retracts something said in a previous poem.
- n. A formal statement of retraction.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A poetical recantation, or declaration contrary to a former one; a poem in which a poet retracts the invectives contained in a former satire; hence, a recantation in general.
- n. Specifically, in Scots law, a solemn recantation demanded in addition to damages in actions for defamation.
- To re-tract or take back (something previously said or written).
- To recant.
Wiktionary
- n. A poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.
- n. A retraction; esp., a formal retraction.
Etymologies
- From Latin palinōdia ("palinode, recantation"), from Ancient Greek παλινῳδία (palinōidia, "palinode"), from πάλιν (palin, "again") + ᾠδή (ōidē, "song"). (Wiktionary)
- From Late Latin palinōdia, from Greek palinōidiā : palin, again; + ōidē, song; see parody. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I think that this kind of palinode almost invariably ends up making the author look terrific.”
“He made a kind of palinode to the "trading justice" later, as other people of his kind have done.”
“Compare the following stanzas, from a kind of palinode, "1870-1871," years of the Franco-German war and the Parisian Commune: --”
“As no writer has contributed so much as Mr. Walpole to depreciate the character of the Duke of Newcastle, this kind of palinode is not unimportant.”
“Delia told me all that passed in her presence, and showed me Baker's palinode, which is rather the most extraordinary document that I ever saw.”
“Kaspar Campèll, who in the first half of the sixteenth century preached the Reformed religion in the Engadine.] [Footnote 4: I have translated and printed at the end of the second volume some sonnets of Petrarch as a kind of palinode for this impertinence.] [Footnote 5: This begs the question whether [Greek: leukoion] does not properly mean snowflake, or some such flower.”
“We never get time alone, either and it ` s very, very depressing. palinode Said,”
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“LOL @ palinode! the mombshell´s last blog. .reality check”
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“Beautifully, beautifully put. palinode on August 04, 2009”
“And elfini- schmutzie and her man palinode have amazing taste in music.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘palinode’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
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phrontistery - p
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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A Time of Gifts
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P words
Only the most awesome 'P' words
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big book gre
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a way
an ode and see
how, manner, path, mode, course, fashion, jostle, wend, easement, hardment, passage, anywise and 95 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
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looked up
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General Loveliness
hirsute, indubitably, gossamer, continuum, murderous, harpy, chimera, foofaraw, hoi polloi, mollycoddle, villein, nonplussed and 121 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Summer 12
vitrine, viaduct, traceries, taxonomic, ternary, vicegerent, stratagem, vermeil, shippon, rostral, scherzando, retinue and 197 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for palinode.
fbharjo is it similar to a sarah nade? Oct 13, 2008
fbharjo What is a palin ode? hearing the same script over and over again??!! same old song? Is a retraction or a reaction? Oct 13, 2008
plumpesdenken "Esther Waters, often considered Moore's finest work and a return of naturalism, is in fact a naturalist palinode." Joe Cleary p. 96 Jul 18, 2007