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Another word for hearken

Verb

  1. To make an effort to hear something

    2. Idioms:
    See also:

    sounds

  2. To perceive by ear, usually attentively

    3. Idioms:
    See also:

    sounds

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Another word for hearken

Verb
    2. See also:

    listen

    hear

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Sentence Examples

  • ` If a king, hearken not to law, his people shall grow feeble and his land be ravaged.

  • Erza did not hearken to his appeal.

  • They denied Church, Scripture, the current ministry and services, calling on men to hearken to Christ within them.

  • On compulsion he stood in their midst and said: " O God, king of the universe, since these who stand with me are thy people and the besieged are thy priests, I pray thee that thou hearken not to those against these, nor accomplish what these entreat against those."

  • Others, on the other hand, hearken back to formal arcane rules of courtship.

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