单词 | to give audience |
释义 | > as lemmasto give audience (to) P1. to give audience (to): (a) to listen, pay attention (to); (b) to grant a formal hearing (to); (also in extended use). Now rare. [Compare Anglo-Norman and Old French doner audience, Middle French, French (now literary) donner audience to listen, pay attention (13th cent.), to grant a formal hearing (to a person) (a1377 or earlier), Spanish dar audiencia (late 14th cent.); also Old Frisian audientie jeva, Middle Low German audiencie gēven.] ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > hear [verb (intransitive)] > listen listenc950 hearkena1000 listc1000 lithea1225 yliþea1300 intendc1380 hear1382 to have or give a lista1400 to give audience (to)c1405 c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Melibeus (Hengwrt) (2003) §174 They wol yeue yow audience & lokyng & supportacioun in thy presence, & scorne thee in thyn absence. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) v. l. 235 Now I am gon, whom yeue ye audience [c1450 Harl. 2280 audiens]. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iv. l. 545 Parde leue broþer..Whan þow me hast yeue an audience Ther-after mayst þow telle all þi sentence. 1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Pardoner & Frere sig. A.iv I requyre all ye in this prese For to abyde, and gyue dew audyence. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) xvi. 109 I refuse to gyf eyris or audiens to thy accusations. 1671 tr. A. Charant Let. conc. Countrys King of Tafiletta 48 in tr. R. Fréjus Relation Voy. Mauritania The King of Morocco usually gives audience at the Gate of this Palace. 1673 R. Allestree Ladies Calling i. v. §32 Shall she take no care..how undecently she appear when the King of Kings gives audience? 1771 J. Ryland Serious Ess. on Truths of Gospel 182 He'll bow his ear, And most attentive audience give, to those that merit not to live. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. xl. 115 To give audience to all who had business to transact with him. 1875 T. T. Stoddart Poems of Seasons 95 The pranksome squirrel, With perk'd ear giving audience To the warbling of the merle! 1921 Times 21 Feb. 6/2 Their brethren in England may find it possible to give audience to the..claims of the Church in Wales. 1999 D. M. Kennedy Freedom from Fear iv. 113 To all of them Roosevelt gave attentive audience. As his visitors talked, FDR would nod in apparent approval. < as lemmas |
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