Usually means: Listening attentively; recalling something past.
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  1. hearkening: Merriam-Webster
  2. hearkening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. hearkening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Hearkening, hearkening: Wordnik
  5. hearkening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. hearkening: Wiktionary
  7. Hearkening, hearkening: Dictionary.com
  8. Hearkening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Hearkening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. hearkening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. hearkening: FreeDictionary.org
  12. hearkening: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hearkening: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hearkening)

▸ noun:  The act of one who hearkens or listens.

Similar:
hark, harken, harkener, hearership, hearin', hark back, heedance, hr'g, hailer, hailing, more...

Opposite:
ignoring, disregarding, neglecting

Phrases:
hearkening back, more...



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Similar:
hark, harken, harkener, hearership, hearin', hark back, heedance, hr'g, hailer, hailing, more...

Opposite:
ignoring, disregarding, neglecting

Phrases:
hearkening back, more...



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