Definition of "hearkens" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hearken. (verb)

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• "My thinking is, "douche bag", used against patriarchists and male supremacists, is an insult, not because we now realize regular douching is bad, or because douching is per se bad, but because the term hearkens to the reason"
• "On Monday, Helena District Judge Jeffrey Sherlock sided with the group in throwing out the state's 1912 Corrupt Practices Act. The law, which hearkens from a public backlash against the "Copper Kings" and their grip on state politics, the law banned corporations from making independent political expenditures."
• "Bauhaus means "building school" and the name hearkens back to the Weimar-based design movement of the 1920s, which challenged the then-orthodoxies of architecture and art."