Hearken
['hɑːk(ə)n] or ['hɑrkən]
Definition
(v. i.) To listen; to lend the ear; to attend to what is uttered; to give heed; to hear, in order to obey or comply.
(v. i.) To inquire; to seek information.
(v. t.) To hear by listening.
(v. t.) To give heed to; to hear attentively.
Typist: Merritt
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Listen, hear.[2]. Attend, give heed, pay regard.
Typist: Toni
Definition
v.i. to hear attentively: to listen.
Checked by Horatio
Examples
- Finding that they would hearken to no terms of accommodation, he laid his petition before the council. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Ye people: Hearken to my words; for I know not whether, after this year, I shall ever be amongst you here again. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- However, let us hearken to good advice, and something may be done for us: _God helps them that help themselves_, as Poor Richard says. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But, Timothy, hearken to me, said the Grandfer earnestly. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Now therefore hearken unto their voice: howbeit yet protest solemnly unto them, and shew them the manner of the king that shall reign over them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He met him, and accosted him in so winning a manner, that he first obliged him to hearken to his discourse. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But hearken, missus, hearken,' said Stephen, astonished. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
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