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listen after en · VERB
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(transitive) To take notice of.
She pricks up her ears to listen after the voice of her pursuer.
1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:Soldiers note Forts, Armouries, and Magazines; Scholars listen after Libraries, Disputations, and Professours.
1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:I will[…]listen after Humfrey, how he proceedes.
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
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