Pronounced: ek-STRAL-ih-tee, noun
Notes: Not a word I know
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The word palinode means
- an ode or song recanting or retracting something in an earlier poem
- a formal retraction
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
Our word came from the Greek word palinōidia, which is made up of palin (back; again) and aeidein (to sing). The story (according to Plato) is that Stesichrous, a Greek poet in the sixth century BC, wrong a poem insulting Helen of Troy. Stesichorus was struck blind because of this, but his sight was restored when he wrong a palinode.
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