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Hearken v. t.

To hear by listening. (Archaic) "(She) hearkened now and then Some little whispering and soft groaning sound."

To give heed to; to hear attentively. (Archaic) "The King of Naples... hearkens my brother's suit."

To hearken out, to search out. (Obs.) "If you find none, you must hearken out a vein and buy."

Hearken v. i. (past & past part. hearkened; pres. part. hearkening)

To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered; to give heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply. "The Furies hearken, and their snakes uncurl." "Hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you."

To inquire; to seek information. (Obs.) "Hearken after their offense."

Synonyms: To attend; listen; hear; heed. See Attend, v. i.

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"Hearken" Quotes from Famous Books

... all belligerents without distinction to hearken to our appeal; with dread we watch the approach of another war-winter, bearing, as it must, a fresh succession of distresses, deprivations and reprisals. Therefore we cannot keep silence.... Numbers of civilian prisoners have been suffering since the beginning ...

— The Better Germany in War Time - Being some Facts towards Fellowship • Harold Picton

... delicate as a whisper; stars of all degrees looked down on their own images in that vast mirror; and the more angry colour of the Farallone's riding lamp burned in the middle distance. For long they continued to gaze on the scene before them, and hearken anxiously to the rustle and tinkle of that miniature surf, or the more distant and loud reverberations from the outer coast. For long speech was denied them; and when the words came at last, they came to both simultaneously. 'Say, Herrick...'the ...

— The Ebb-Tide - A Trio And Quartette • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... the other side of the Big River?" demanded the old man, solemnly, and without appearing to hearken to the other's question; "or why do I see a sight, I had never ...

— The Prairie • J. Fenimore Cooper

... hearken to reason, Pathfinder? Ye'll no' be forgetting our suspicions and judgments; and here is another circumstance to augment and aggravate them all. Ye can see this little bit of bunting; well, where should it be found but by Mabel Dunham, on the branch of a tree on this very ...

— The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea • James Fenimore Cooper

... Religion, and yet come short of the moral faith of fish and fowl; Men that violate the Law, affirm'd by Saint Paul [Rom. 2.14.15] to be writ in their hearts, and which he sayes shal at the last day condemn and leave them without excuse. I pray hearken to what Dubartas sings [5. day.] (for the hearing of such conjugal faithfulness, will be Musick to all chaste ears) and therefore, I say, hearken to what Dubartas sings of ...

— The Complete Angler 1653 • Isaak Walton

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