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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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On a female figure, spikes sticking out of the head harken back to the bear claws that adorned Demento's warm-up outfit.
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.
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.
The band's dueling guitars harken back to the arty axe work of the quintessential NYC act Television.

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