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Definition of Palinode
1. n. An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a repetition of an ode.
Definition of Palinode
1. Noun. A poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Palinode
1. a formal retraction [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palinode
Literary usage of Palinode
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar in Relation to Contemporary Affairs by James Jackson Higginson (1912)
"THE INTERLOCUTORS OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL ECLOGUES One of the interlocutors of the
May eclogue is palinode. This name is of classical origin, ..."
2. Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar in Relation to Contemporary Affairs by James Jackson Higginson (1912)
"THE INTERLOCUTORS OP THE ECCLESIASTICAL ECLOGUES One of the interlocutors of the
May eclogue is palinode. This name is of classical origin, ..."
3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1920)
"A palinode. As withereth the primrose by the river, As fadeth summer's sun from
gliding fountains, As vanisheth the light blown bubble ever, As melteth snow ..."
4. The reader's handbook of allusions, references, plots and stories by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1882)
"... lins a palinode, iu whu-h lie recanted what he said in a previous poem of the
lion. Edward Howard. Dr. Watts recanted in a poem the praise he had ..."
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