recked English
Verb
(head)
(reck)
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reck English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)
Verb
( en verb)
To make account of; to care for; to heed; to regard; consider.
* Sir Philip Sidney
- this son of mine not recking danger
* Burns
- And may you better reck the rede / Than ever did the adviser.
* 1603 , William Shakespeare, "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", Act 1, Scene 3:
- Ophelia:
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.
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* 1922 , (James Joyce), Chapter 13
- Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core.
To care; to matter.
* 1822 , John E. Hall (ed.), The Port Folio , vol. XIV
- Little thou reck'st [2] of this sad store!
- Would thou might never reck [1] them more!
* 1900 , , Villanelle of Marguerite's , lines 10-11
*:She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall
*:With voice and eyes and fashion of her hair
To concern, to be important
- It recks not!
* Milton
- What recks it them?
(obsolete) To think.
Derived terms
* (l)
* reckless
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reched English
Verb
(head)
(obsolete) (reached)
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reached English
Verb
(head)
(reach)
Related terms
* far-reached
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