Harkens vs Darkens - What's the difference?
harkens | darkens |
(harken)
‘to listen, hear, regard’, more common form in the US.
* 1833 :
* 1883:
* 1942 ,
(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
* 2005 , Carol Padden, Tom L. Humphries, Inside Deaf Culture , page 48
(darken)
To make dark or darker by reducing light.
* Bible, Exodus x. 15
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
To become gloomy, darker in mood
To blind, impair eyesight
* Bible, Rom xi. 10
To be blinded, loose clear vision
To cloud, obscure, or perplex; to render less clear or intelligible.
* Bible, Job xxxviii. 2
* Francis Bacon
To make foul; to sully; to tarnish.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between harkens and darkens
is that harkens is third-person singular of harken while darkens is third-person singular of darken.harkens
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*harken
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(en verb)- Œnone Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die.
- 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...
- ... whom he had revered and harkened to and loved and lost and grieved:
- The emerging consensus that writing was merely transcribed speech, then, harkened back to the pre-disciplinary, liberal arts college
- 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)
Anagrams
* ----darkens
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* *darken
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(en verb)- They [locusts] covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened .
- With these forced thoughts, I prithee, darken not / The mirth of the feast.
- Let their eyes be darkened , that they may not see.
- Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?
- Such was his wisdom that his confidence did seldom darken his foresight.
- I must not think there are / Evils enough to darken all his goodness.