Definitions for palinodes

palinodes pal·i·node

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

Palinodes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 906 anagrams from letters in palinodes (adeilnops).

Definitions for palinodes

noun

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

Origin of palinodes

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 palinodes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Word Value for palinodes
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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