Hearkening

Word HEARKENING
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Definitions and meanings of "Hearkening"

What do we mean by hearkening?

(obsolete except poetic) To hear (something) with attention; to have regard to (something).

To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, compliance, or obedience.

To enquire; to seek information.

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. Urban Dictionary

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The word "hearkening" in example sentences

These latent structures, originally sown into matter at its creation, Bonaventure calls, following the terminology of St. Augustine, rationes seminales or seminal reasons, a term hearkening back to the cosmology of the ancient St.ics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This, he assures them, was their design, and therefore they must needs be very unwise in hearkening to them. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Thus were they made ashamed of the prophets they had been proud of, and convinced at last of their folly in hearkening to them. ❋ Unknown (1721)

We can never employ our faculty of hearing better than in hearkening to the word of God: and we deserve to lose it if we do not employ it to this purpose. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Moses was a temporary institution and was given for such purposes as were only subservient to and not subversive of the promise, and that now, under the gospel, Christians enjoy much greater and better privileges than the Jews did under that dispensation, it must needs follow that they were very unreasonable and unwise, in hearkening to those who at once endeavoured to deprive them of the truth and liberty of the gospel. ❋ Unknown (1721)

COOPER: Well, what the Republicans do seem to be doing is kind of hearkening back to the past. ❋ Unknown (2006)

His work is both a hearkening back to the lost days of youth, and a looking forward to new experiences and ways of seeing things. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bankers are hearkening back to the aftermath of the U.S. savings & loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the Resolution Trust Corp. was formed to work through hundreds of thousands of residential and commercial loans. ❋ Al Yoon (2011)

Maybe you're just hearkening back to the British Parliament in the olde days, except that was limited to property owning men ... ❋ Unknown (2010)

A classic love story and a triumphant hearkening back to the early days of cinema, the film has been well publicized as a silent film about the silent film era. ❋ Unknown (2012)

The use of a veil outside or within the tabernacle is an old custom, hearkening to the Old Testament imagery of the sanctuary tent and the Temple. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also, his persona seems to be hearkening back to a bygone era of governors (and ultimately him). ❋ Unknown (2009)

If you had grown up listening to adults reading to each other regularly, the thought of all of those solitary 21st-century individuals hearkening to earbuds and car radios would seem isolating. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In doing so, the film industry is hearkening back to what was once a strength of classic Hollywood: the blockbuster women's film. ❋ Govindini Murty (2011)

Even as these anti-gay activists were hearkening back to smears of the past, key conservatives were stepping into the future. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Wolff does see the iPad as having an impact on magazines and newspapers, but hearkening back to Steve Jobs's somewhat contentious relationships with the music industry, or wireless phone networks, he predicts that the advantages will be all for Apple. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the soul-searching that has followed South Africa's first-round elimination from the 2010 World Cup, the first host nation to suffer such a fate, several retired soccer players are hearkening back to the days of apartheid, when the sport was played widely by people of all colors, separately at first and then increasingly together as barriers fell, uniting them on the field even as the nation's race-based laws kept them apart off it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Barbra Streisand's Village Vanguard performance was originally booked to celebrate the release of Love Is The Answer, the artist's album of jazz standards hearkening back to her musical roots in New York cabaret. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how [healthily] --how calmly I can tell you the whole story. -Edgar E. [Poe], The [Tell Tale] Heart Hearken!... That's not the point of this conversation. ❋ Ilhsdm (2009)

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