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Definition of Harken
1. Verb. Listen; used mostly in the imperative.
Definition of Harken
1. v. t. & i. To hearken.
Definition of Harken
1. Verb. (alternative spelling of hearken) ‘to listen, hear, regard’, more common form in the US. ¹
2. Verb. (figuratively US) To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (qualifier a past event or era). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Harken
1. to hearken [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: hearken
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harken
Literary usage of Harken
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"harken was probably given some impetus in American use by its having been put
forward as ... Both harken and hearken are still used in their basic meaning. ..."
2. The School of Abuse: Containing a Pleasant Invective Against Poets, Pipers by Stephen Gosson (1841)
"... if I have beene tedious in my lecture, or you be weary of your lesson, harken
no longer for the clock, shut upp the Schoole, and get you home. FINIS. ..."
3. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"No cloud did darken The night ; we did harken How the hound bay'd from the hill.
January, 1856. ... harken ..."
4. The Hako: A Pawnee Ceremony by Alice Cunningham Fletcher, James R. Murie, Edwin S. Tracy (1904)
"1362 harken! This poor man's prayer went on, Speeding afar into the bine Heavens
above, reached there the place— harken! Where dwell the lesser gods— harken ..."
5. Revised Record of the Constitutional Convention of the State of New York by New York (State). Constitutional Convention (1916)
"If you keep your present scheme and elect the Governor for two years and the
Senate for two years, and the Assembly for one year, if you harken to the voice ..."
6. The London Magazine Enlarged and Improved (1785)
"... Holy, holy, holy pair, harken to your vot'ry's pray'r, Grant, that like
Solomon's of old, ... harken ..."
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