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- verb Present participle of
hearken .
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Examples
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These latent structures, originally sown into matter at its creation, Bonaventure calls, following the terminology of St. Augustine, rationes seminales or seminal reasons, a term hearkening back to the cosmology of the ancient St.ics.
Amputee 2009
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This, he assures them, was their design, and therefore they must needs be very unwise in hearkening to them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Thus were they made ashamed of the prophets they had been proud of, and convinced at last of their folly in hearkening to them.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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We can never employ our faculty of hearing better than in hearkening to the word of God: and we deserve to lose it if we do not employ it to this purpose.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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Moses was a temporary institution and was given for such purposes as were only subservient to and not subversive of the promise, and that now, under the gospel, Christians enjoy much greater and better privileges than the Jews did under that dispensation, it must needs follow that they were very unreasonable and unwise, in hearkening to those who at once endeavoured to deprive them of the truth and liberty of the gospel.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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COOPER: Well, what the Republicans do seem to be doing is kind of hearkening back to the past.
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His work is both a hearkening back to the lost days of youth, and a looking forward to new experiences and ways of seeing things.
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Bankers are hearkening back to the aftermath of the U.S. savings & loan crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the Resolution Trust Corp. was formed to work through hundreds of thousands of residential and commercial loans.
J.P. Morgan to Revive Bad-Loan Securities Al Yoon 2011
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Maybe you're just hearkening back to the British Parliament in the olde days, except that was limited to property owning men ...
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In doing so, the film industry is hearkening back to what was once a strength of classic Hollywood: the blockbuster women's film.
Govindini Murty: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Twilight, and the Return of Women's Blockbuster Films Govindini Murty 2011
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