Definitions for palinode

palinode pal·i·node

Spelling: [pal-uh-nohd]
IPA: /ˈpæl əˌnoʊd/

Palinode is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 444 anagrams from letters in palinode (adeilnop).

Definitions for palinode

noun

  1. a poem in which the poet retracts something said in an earlier poem.
  2. a recantation.

Origin of palinode

1590-1600; Late Latin palinōdia Greek palinōidía a singing again, especially a recanting, equivalent to pálin again, back + ōid(ḗ) ode + -ia -ia

Examples for palinode

Afterwards, falling in love with a lady, he closes these sonnets with a palinode.

The lines in roman type are those of The Return, those in italic belong to palinode.

The Senate has revoked that bill; has retracted, recanted, and sung its palinode over that unfortunate conception.

It gives no reasons; it merely cites me, not to be heard, but simply to sing a palinode.

He sent for all his servants, even the piggard-boy, to come and heare his palinode.

palinode, in Scotch libel cases a formal recantation exacted in addition to damages.

I look for peace in the way that Plato trod, and some day I shall write my palinode in that spirit.

This criticism of the "Gate of Paradise" sounds even to the writer of it profane, and demands a palinode.

He made a kind of palinode to the “trading justice” later, as other people of his kind have done.

The 1647 edition contains two poems, The Return and palinode, which stand to each other in a curious relation.

Word Value for palinode
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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