Definition of Harkener

1. one that harkens [n -S] - See also: harkens

Lexicographical Neighbors of Harkener

harim
harimanage
harims
haring
hariolation
hariolations
harish
harissa
harissas
hark
hark back
harked
harken
harken back
harkened
harkener (current term)
harkeners
harkening
harkens
harkerite
harking
harks
harl
harle
harlech group
harled
harlequin
harlequin-snake
harlequin chromosome
harlequin duck

Literary usage of Harkener

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Rob Roy by Walter Scott, David Henry Montgomery (1894)
"My feelings of hasty resentment soon subsided, under the conviction that, as Andrew himself might have said, " A harkener always hears a bad tale of himself ..."

2. Poems: Lyric and Dramatic by Ethel Louise Cox (1904)
"harkener of sighs Of souls foreboding! Lord, thy heavenly art Once more, hath drawn to thee a virgin heart! Look down, gold-quivered son of supreme Jove, ..."

3. Poems: Lyric and Dramatic by Ethel Louise Cox (1904)
"harkener of sighs Of souls foreboding! Lord, thy heavenly art Once more, hath drawn to thee a virgin heart! Look down, gold-quivered son of supreme Jove, ..."

4. The Manuscripts of J. Eliot Hodgkin, Esq., F. S. A. of Richmond, Surrey by John Eliot Hodgkin, Samuel Pepys, Gascoigne, John Cordy Jeaffreson (1897)
"“Gentlemen, some if not most of you have knowne me from my childhood. Did you ever know me factious, a busy body, a harkener after ..."

5. Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language by John Walker, Thomas Smith (1834)
"... lls'sn-Ur. s. a harkener Listless, llst'lès. a. careless, heedless Listlessness, llsi'lês-nès-j. inattention,want Lit, lit. the fret, of to light [desi ..."

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