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What does harken mean?

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  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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Or will it harken back to its true, indie roots-to a time when only the cool kids knew who Parker Posey and Chloe Sevigny were?
That meant, naturally, that I was to approach and harken unto what he had to say.
He is said to harken back to a better time, when senators put party aside yadda yadda.
All fundamentalisms harken back to a supposedly purer historical era of simple belief.
And he certain is the biggest liar it ever were my pleasure to harken unto.
That's the name of a Facebook group that eponymously asks folks to harken back to their memories of the Little Rock of their youths.

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