单词 | hearkener |
释义 | hearkenern. a. One who listens or gives ear; a listener. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > hearer or listener hearera1340 hearkener1340 auditorc1386 intelligent1508 audient1550 listener1611 auditress1667 harker1825 describee1830 sayeea1902 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 58 Þe herkneres do wel lheȝȝe. c1422 T. Hoccleve Learn to Die 547 Thyn herkners and thyn Auditours. 1423 Kingis Quair clvi There sawe I..The fery tigere..The herknere bore. ?1480 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophres (Caxton) (new ed.) lf. 51 The predicacion is not to be lawded that endureth ouer the power of the herkeners. 1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Eiiv An herkener of fables and lyes. 1811 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 65 486 The starers..or harkeners are satirized. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > [noun] > secret listening > person engaged in eavesdropper1487 hearkener1549 otacust1632 ear droppera1670 earwigger1865 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > [noun] > hearer or listener > eavesdropper eavesdropper1487 hearkener1549 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Tim. v. f. xv Babling tale tellers & curious herkeners. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Escouteur..a harkner, a scout, an eavesdropper. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1340 |
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