Harkens vs Hearkens - What's the difference?
harkens | hearkens |
(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
(hearken)
To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, obedience, or compliance.
* Dryden
* Bible, Deuteronomy
(poetic) To hear by listening.
* Spenser
To hear with attention; to regard.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To enquire; to seek information.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between harkens and hearkens
is that harkens is (harken) while hearkens is (hearken).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
* ----hearkens
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*hearken
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Alternative forms
* harkenVerb
(en verb)- The Furies hearken , and their snakes uncurl.
- Hearken , O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you.
- [She] hearkened now and then / Some little whispering and soft groaning sound.
- The King of Naples hearkens my brother's suit.
- Hearken after their offense.