harking

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of hark

noun

1. The act of harking back; a reversion or return.

   “Despite such harkings to the Old Muscovite past, the trappings of European life inevitably followed once the Russians began to live in European settings.”

2. (abbreviation, alt-of, uncountable)Abbreviation of hypothesizing after results are known