Hearkening [verb]
Definition of Hearkening:
hear
Synonyms of Hearkening:
● Hark
● Attend
● Get
● Read
● Give
● Strain
● Devour
● Take
● Descry
● Catch
● Heed
● Listen
● Make out
● Pick up
● Overhear
Opposite/Antonyms of Hearkening:
Sentence/Example of Hearkening:
"Hearkening and obedience," replied the smith and falling to work on them, speedily despatched them for him.
"Hearkening and obedience," replied the other and going before him, guided him to Alaeddin's palace.
Meanwhile, Ben sweeps on like the wind, hearkening even in his haste for the welcome "thwack, thwack" of his father's axe.
And yet—and yet, hearkening, I caught the same unsteady note that had made me curious of him often and often before.
A rank odor of earth filled it; and I never passed that way without hearkening for the insect-like song of the rattlesnake.
He stood long in moody thought, but his ears never for an instant relaxed their vigil, their hearkening for he knew not what.
It was not sleep at first, but a mental hearkening back to scenes and incidents in his Chicago life.
Presently it dawned upon the hearkening groups that the missiles were falling at stated and ordained periods.
He found himself hearkening intently for the varied calls of warning that went wailing hither and yon.
Bessie lingered a little, with her eyes fixed far away, and her head on one side as if she were hearkening to something.