Palinode

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Palinode \Pal"i*node\, n. [L. palinodia, from Gr. ?; pa`lin
     again + ? a song. See {Ode}.]
     1. An ode recanting, or retracting, a former one; also, a
        repetition of an ode.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. A retraction; esp., a formal retraction. --Sandys.
        [1913 Webster]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  96 Moby Thesaurus words for "palinode":
     English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
     Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, abjuration,
     abjurement, alba, anacreontic, balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic,
     canso, chanson, clerihew, denial, dirge, disavowal, disclaimer,
     disclamation, disowning, disownment, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy,
     epic, epigram, epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos,
     expatriation, forswear, forswearing, georgic, ghazel, haiku, idyll,
     jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigal, monody, narrative poem,
     nursery rhyme, ode, palinody, pastoral, pastoral elegy, pastorela,
     pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, recall, recant, recantation,
     reneging, renouncement, renunciation, repudiation, retract,
     retractation, retraction, revocation, revokement, rhyme, rondeau,
     rondel, roundel, roundelay, satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet,
     sonnet sequence, take back, tanka, tenso, tenzone, threnody,
     triolet, troubadour poem, unsay, unsaying, verse, verselet,
     versicle, villanelle, virelay, withdraw, withdrawal