harking

English

Verb

harking

1. present participle of hark

Noun

harking (plural harkings)

1. The act of harking back; a reversion or return.
   • 1998, W. Bruce Lincoln, Between Heaven and Hell

     Despite such harkings to the Old Muscovite past, the trappings of European life inevitably followed once the Russians began to live in European settings.