palinode

US: (pal′ə nōd′)

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pal•i•node  (pal′ə nōd′), n. 

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

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

pal′i•nod′ist, n.