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What does harken mean?

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Verb
  1. Alternative spelling of hearken ‘to listen, hear, regard’, more common form in the US.
  2. (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).
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And he certain is the biggest liar it ever were my pleasure to harken unto.
The band's dueling guitars harken back to the arty axe work of the quintessential NYC act Television.
In the meantime, longtime residents are left to harken back to that first crowd that had to endure an invasion of newcomers, the Montauket tribe.
For those people who harken unto the things of the earth, they are of the spirit of this earth, which is the spirit of satan.
He is said to harken back to a better time, when senators put party aside yadda yadda.
Nominalized verb formations such as verbal nouns, participles, and predicative adjectives probably harken back to the protolanguage and can be reconstructed for predicates expressing state rather than action.

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