harken

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Verb 1.3 References 1.4 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˈhɑːkən/

  Rhymes: -ɑː(r)kən

[edit] Verb

to harken (third-person singular simple present harkens, present participle harkening, simple past and past participle harkened)

1. Alternative spelling of hearken.
   • 1833: Alfred Tennyson

     Œnone Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die.

   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     We were not many minutes on the road, though we sometimes stopped to lay hold of each other and harken. But there was no unusual sound...

   • 1942, William Faulkner, The Bear

     ... whom he had revered and harkened to and loved and lost and grieved:

   • 1994, David Coogan, Electronic Writing Centers: Computing the Field of Composition, page 4

     The emerging consensus that writing was merely transcribed speech, then, harkened back to the pre-disciplinary, liberal arts college

   • 2005, Carol Padden, Tom L. Humphries, Inside Deaf Culture, page 48

     Bell argued that the manual approach was "backwards," and harkened to a primitive age where humans used gesture and pantomime.

[edit] References

• harken in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aehknr
• hanker