Reck

Quick meaning: Reck is a verb meaning (catenative, archaic) To want (to do something); to desire to, to be inclined to, to care to.

Meaning

(catenative, archaic) To want (to do something); to desire to, to be inclined to, to care to.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive with of, archaic) To know about, to know of, to be aware of.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To reckon, to consider, to regard (someone or something) as.
3. (ambitransitive, archaic, dialectal) To concern (someone); to be important or of interest to; to matter.
4. (reflexive, obsolete, dialectal) To concern oneself, to trouble oneself.
5. (transitive, intransitive (usually with of or for), archaic) To take account of (someone or something); to care for; to consider, to heed, to regard.

Example Sentences

Little thou reck'st of this sad store! Would thou might never reck them more!

[…]with that care lost / went all his fear: of God, or hell, or worse / he recked not[…]

She knows us not, nor recks if she enthrall With voice and eyes and fashion of her hair […]

Little recked he perhaps for what she felt, that dull aching void in her heart sometimes, piercing to the core.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include consider, quote, count, retch, regard, rate.

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