Definitions
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- noun One who hearkens; a listener.
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- noun One who hearkens; a
listener .
Etymologies
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hearken + -er
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Examples
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A glorious king in the battle, a hearkener at the doom,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865
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A glorious king in the battle, a hearkener at the doom,
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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Hereupon he rent his garment immediately, out of grief, and pulled off the hair of his head and beard, and cast himself upon the ground, because this crime had reached the principal men among the people; and considering that if he should enjoin them to cast out their wives, and the children they had by them, he should not be hearkener to, he continued lying upon the ground.
Antiquities of the Jews Flavius Josephus 1709
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