单词 | audience of leave |
释义 | > as lemmasaudience of leave audience of leave n. now historical a farewell interview or meeting; spec. (in diplomacy) a formal leave-taking between a sovereign or government minister and a foreign representative who has been recalled to his or her own country. ΚΠ 1660 W. Lower tr. Relation Voiage Charls II 95 Mr de Thou, Count of Meslay, Embassadour of France, took this day his audience of leave, with the same ceremonies he took the first. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 298. ⁋5 I dropped him a Curtsy, and gave him to understand that this was his Audience of Leave. 1797 E. Marshall Edmund & Eleonora II. xcv. 309 They had their audience of leave, as they were, on the morrow to take their departure for Lisbon. a1827 T. H. Horne in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XVIII. 37/2 Where the Minister, who succeeds one that is recalled, arrives before the departure of the latter..the Minister who is on the point of departing presents him to the Sovereign at his Audience of Leave. 1917 E. Channing Hist. U.S. IV. xv. 420 Pinkney..had his audience of leave on February 28, 1811, and sailed for home. 2000 C. Heywood in A. Hamilton et al. Friends & Rivals in East iii. 90 The next Paget heard was that Van Heemskerck had been given his audience of leave; again he wrote..that no further letters for the king be given him, but he was too late. < as lemmas |
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