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palinody

palinody is the obsolete form of palinode.

Meaning of palinode

Noun

palinode (plural palinodes)

  1. An ode or other poem in which the author retracts something said in an earlier poem; (loosely) a recantation.
    • ... Balmawhapple could not, by the code of honour, evite giving satisfaction to ... Edward by such a palinode as rendered the use of the sword unnecessary, and which, being made and accepted, must necessarily sopite the whole affair.1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since

Forms of palinody

pluralpalinodies

Questions about palinody

What is palinody the obsolete form of?
Palinody is the obsolete form of palinode.

Words near palinody in the dictionary

  1. palinodial
  2. palinodic
  3. palinodies
  4. palinodist
  5. palinodists
  6. palinody
  7. palinological
  8. palinopia
  9. palinopsia
  10. palinquin
  11. palinquins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: palinody (page history and authors); palinode (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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