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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pal-uh-nohd |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpæl əˌnoʊd |
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Définition of palinode
Origin :- 1590s, from Middle French palinod (16c.) or directly from Latin palinodia, from Greek palinoidia "poetic retraction," from palin "again, back" (see palindrome) + oide "song" (see ode). Related: Palinodic.
- noun retraction
- He sent for all his servants, even the piggard-boy, to come and heare his palinode.
- Extract from : « Brief Lives (Vol. 2 of 2) » by John Aubrey
- The 1647 edition contains two poems, The Return and Palinode, which stand to each other in a curious relation.
- Extract from : « Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, Vol III » by John Cleveland
- The lines in roman type are those of The Return, those in italic belong to Palinode.
- Extract from : « Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, Vol III » by John Cleveland
- This criticism of the "Gate of Paradise" sounds even to the writer of it profane, and demands a palinode.
- Extract from : « Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 » by John Addington Symonds
- Afterwards, falling in love with a lady, he closes these sonnets with a palinode.
- Extract from : « A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation » by Thomas Warton
- It gives no reasons; it merely cites me, not to be heard, but simply to sing a palinode.
- Extract from : « History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Vol 2 » by J. H. Merle D'Aubign
- Palinode, in Scotch libel cases a formal recantation exacted in addition to damages.
- Extract from : « St. Ronan's Well » by Sir Walter Scott
- The Senate has revoked that bill; has retracted, recanted, and sung its palinode over that unfortunate conception.
- Extract from : « Thirty Years' View (Vol. I of 2) » by Thomas Hart Benton
- I look for peace in the way that Plato trod, and some day I shall write my palinode in that spirit.
- Extract from : « The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance » by Paul Elmer More
- He made a kind of palinode to the “trading justice” later, as other people of his kind have done.
- Extract from : « Adventures among Books » by Andrew Lang
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