harkening

Verb

harken (third-person singular simple present harkens, present participle harkening, simple past and past participle harkened)

1. (US, figuratively, intransitive) To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).
   • Bell argued that the manual approach was "backwards," and harkened to a primitive age where humans used gesture and pantomime.2005, Carol Padden, Tom L. Humphries, Inside Deaf Culture, page 48

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