Definitions
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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
palinode , orretraction .
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Examples
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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
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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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