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Definition of Hearkener
1. n. One who hearkens; a listener.
Definition of Hearkener
1. Noun. One who hearkens; a listener. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hearkener
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hearkener
Literary usage of Hearkener
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1896)
"The hearkener heareth what is said. He that loveth to hear doeth according to
what is said ... The hearkener to whom they are told, he is excellent in body. ..."
2. Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt: Lectures Delivered on by James Henry Breasted (1912)
"A hearkener is one whom the god loves. Who hearkens not is one whom the god hates.
It is the heart (=understanding) which makes its possessor a ..."
3. The Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Edmund Gosse, Thomas James Wise (1918)
"MEMORIAL VERSES ON THE DEATH OF KARL BLIND ACROSS the wide-wing'd years Whose
sound no hearkener hears Passing in thunder of reverberate ..."
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