Definition of "harkening" []

• Present participle of harken. (verb)

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• ""Inland Empire finds a perfect match in harkening back to the avant-garde aesthetics of Eraserhead and Lynch's student short films at the same time it embraces the director's contemporary explorations of subjective storytelling," writes Daniel Kasman."
• "They are a vestige of an older Republican Party that was genuinely consistent in standing up for individual rights, their very name harkening back to the party of Abraham Lincoln and the fight against slavery."
• "In the aftermath of Mbeki's fall, his diehards combined with other Zuma doubters to form a new party calling itself the Congress of the People, a hallowed name harkening back to a gathering in 1955, in a place called Kliptown, which drafted the Freedom Charter, the manifesto of a movement that was soon to be banned and driven underground."