hearken
to listen carefully or pay close attention to something
Hearken in a sentence
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The crowd hearkened to the elder's words with reverent silence.
The council urged the young king to hearken to the counsel of his more experienced ministers.
Using “hearken” well
Hearken is an archaic or literary word meaning to listen attentively or heed. In the modern phrase hearken back, it instead means to recall or evoke an earlier time.
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