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    [Verb]  | "heark*en" | \ ˈhär-kən \


    1: listen

    2: to give respectful attention

    3: to bring to mind something in the past : hearken back


    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English herknen, from Old English heorcnian; akin to Old High German hōrechen to listen, Old English hīeran to hear;

    [Verb]  | "hearken back" 


    1: to go back to or recall to mind something in the past : hark back—usually used with to


    Origin: 1900 ;

    [Verb]  | "hearkens" 


    1: to pay attention especially through the act of hearing;


      * e.g., " ... hearken! I hear the distant beat of the hooves of many horses "





    [Verb]  | "hearken" 


    1: to pay attention especially through the act of hearing;


      * e.g., " ... hearken! I hear the distant beat of the hooves of many horses "





    [Verb]  | "hearken back (to)" 


    1: to bring back to mind;


      * e.g., " ... an elderly man who liked to hearken back to the good old days "





     [ "Hearken" ]

    1: According to some poetry by Edgar E. Poe, harken means 'listen' as if you were trying to make someone listen to you, like shuting them up.

      * e.g.,  ... How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily --how calmly I can tell you the whole story. 

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