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give ear en · VERB
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(archaic, idiomatic, intransitive) To listen: to devote one's attention to an auditory event.
Give ear to his motions: Master Slender, I will description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it.
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:Leaves and rain and the days of the year,
(Water-willow and wellaway,)
All these fall, and my soul gives ear
1882, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, A Death-Parting, lines 5–6:
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lend an ear