Darkened vs Harkened - What's the difference?

darkened | harkened |

As verbs the difference between darkened and harkened

is that darkened is (darken) while harkened is (harken).

darkened

English

Verb

(head)

(darken)

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darken

English

Verb

(en verb)

To make dark or darker by reducing light.

* Bible, Exodus x. 15

They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened .

To become dark or darker (having less light).

To make dark or darker in colour.

To become dark or darker in colour.

To render gloomy, darker in mood

* Shakespeare

With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not / The mirth of the feast.

To become gloomy, darker in mood

To blind, impair eyesight

* Bible, Rom xi. 10

Let their eyes be darkened , that they may not see.

To be blinded, loose clear vision

To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.

* Bible, Job xxxviii. 2

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

* Francis Bacon

Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom darken his foresight.

To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.

* Shakespeare

I must not think there are / Evils enough to darken all his goodness.

Conjugation

(en-conj-simple)

Derived terms

* darkener * darken someone's door

Synonyms

* blacken

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harkened

English

Verb

(head)

(harken)

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harken

English

Verb

(en verb)

‘to listen, hear, regard’, more common form in the US.

* 1833 :

Œnone Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die.

* 1883:

We were not many minutes on the road, though we sometimes stopped to lay hold of each other and harken . But there was no unusual sound...

* 1942 ,

... whom he had revered and harkened to and loved and lost and grieved:

(figuratively, US) To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).

* 1994 , David Coogan, Electronic Writing Centers: Computing the Field of Composition , page 4

The emerging consensus that writing was merely transcribed speech, then, harkened back to the pre-disciplinary, liberal arts college

* 2005 , Carol Padden, Tom L. Humphries, Inside Deaf Culture , page 48

Bell argued that the manual approach was "backwards," and harkened to a primitive age where humans used gesture and pantomime.

Usage notes

The bare form harken has been used since the 1980s, though some authorities frown upon this and prefer the traditional form hark back.

References

* * Merriam-Webster’s dictionary of English usage, 1995, p. 497 * “ Hark/Hearken”, Paul Brians, Common Errors in English Usage, (2nd Edition, November, 2008)

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