hearken
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hearken (third-person singular simple present hearkens, present participle hearkening, simple past and past participle hearkened)
- (intransitive) To listen; to lend the ear; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, obedience, or compliance.
- (transitive, poetic) To hear by listening.
- (transitive) To hear with attention; to regard.
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- 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version)[1], Genesis 3:17
- And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
- 1833: Alfred Tennyson, Œnone
- Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die.
- 1809-49: The Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Allan Poe
- How then am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story.
[edit] References
- hearken in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
