Why this word is great
PALINODIST — [Noun] One who composes a palinode, a formal poetic recantation in which the author renounces a view or sentiment from an earlier work. From palinode (from Late Latin palinōdia, from Greek palinōidía, "a singing again, recanting") + -ist (agent noun suffix). Unlike a recanter, who withdraws a statement in any forum, often under duress, or an apologist, who defends a position with reasoned prose, a palinodist performs their retraction through the very medium of their original transgression—verse. It is the poet in lamplight scratching out a youthful ode to war, the philosopher crafting a sonnet to praise the complexity he once damned, the lover composing a formal elegy for the passion he once celebrated in a fevered lyric. In the end, it is the rare and graceful admission that one's most beautiful words were also the most wrong, rendered in finer words still.