Hearken Definition

härkən
harkened, harkening, harkens, hearkened, hearkening, hearkens
verb
hearkened, hearkening, hearkens
To give careful attention; listen carefully.
Webster's New World
To heed; hear.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
idiom
hearken back
  • to go back in thought or speech; revert; hark back
Webster's New World

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Origin of Hearken

  • From Middle English hercnen, from Old English *heorcnian, suffixed form of an assumed *heorcian (cf. hark), from the same root as hȳran (whence hear), with a formative/intensive -k. Equivalent to hark + -en.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English herknen from Old English hercnian kous- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Hearken Sentence Examples

  • Erza did not hearken to his appeal.

  • They denied Church, Scripture, the current ministry and services, calling on men to hearken to Christ within them.

  • We often hear our enemies teaching our duty to us, that will not hearken to God.

  • Others, on the other hand, hearken back to formal arcane rules of courtship.

  • If you're going to indulge yourself in stockings that hearken back to an earlier era, you should go further and hold them up with garter belts and girdles that are made to do the job and help shape your curves as well.

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Words Starting With

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