palinode

• Samuel Butler has a palinode, in which he recanted what he said in a previous poem of the Hon. Edward Howard. —  Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
• Of this his hymn or palinode is a proof; fragments of which are quoted by many of the Fathers, as Justin, Tatian, Clemens of Alexandria, Cyril, and Theodoret, and the whole by Eusebius, quoting from Aristobulus. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
• The founder of the house was one Kaspar Campčll, 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. —  Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
• This palinode is, no doubt, intended to give a plausible air of fairness to the book, but such a death-bed repentance comes too late, and makes the whole preceding history seem not fair but foolish It is a relief to turn to the few chapters that deal directly with the social life and thought of the Greeks. —  Reviews
• And these answer to the palinode (recantation) which he promises in my name in his forged preface. —  Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I.

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