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Default What does "hold audience with oneself" mean?
I came across an English phrase "to hold audience with oneself", which I failed to find the definition in all the dictionaries available, Could anybody tell me what it means? Thank you very much!
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When monarch and important people receive visitors, they give them an audience, so presumably this person is doing it alone.
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Talk to yourself.

No one is listening to you.
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