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harken
UK /ˈhɑːk(ə)n/ US /ˈhɑɹkən/
verb 2name 1
Collocations
2ADJ.
mad
VERB + HARKEN
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Definitions
verb
1
Alternative spelling of hearken: to hear, to listen, to have regard.
Ev'n from the depths of Hell the Damn'd advance, / Th' Infernal Manſions nodding ſeem to dance; / The gaping three-mouth'd Dog forgets to ſnarl, / The Furies harken, and their Snakes uncurl.
How, then, am I mad? Harken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
2
To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).
Bell argued that the manual approach was "backwards," and harkened to a primitive age where humans used gesture and pantomime.
name
1
A surname from German.
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Ev'n from the depths of Hell the Damn'd advance, / Th' Infernal Manſions nodding ſeem to dance; / The gaping three-mouth'd Dog forgets to ſnarl, / The Furies harken, and their Snakes uncurl.
Wiktionary02
How, then, am I mad? Harken! and observe how healthily—how calmly I can tell you the whole story.
Wiktionary03
[T]he mother who had shaped him if any had toward the man he almost was, [...] whom he had revered and harkened to and loved and lost and grieved: [...]
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