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verb

Haunt v. t. (past & past part. haunted; pres. part. haunting)

To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon. "You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house." "Those cares that haunt the court and town."

To inhabit or frequent as a specter; to visit as a ghost or apparition; said of spirits or ghosts, especially of dead people; as, the murdered man haunts the house where he died. "Foul spirits haunt my resting place."

To practice; to devote one's self to. (Obs.) "That other merchandise that men haunt with fraud... is cursed." "Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime."

To accustom; to habituate. (Obs.) "Haunt thyself to pity."

Haunt v. i. To persist in staying or visiting. "I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Haunting" Quotes from Famous Books

... that the Lord would take care of her." Next morning the effects of the "chill" had passed off, but there was left a more or less constant feeling of vague dread and fear of death, and with this a haunting idea born of this strongly felt hallucination of external touch that Satan was within her. The feelings of dread and fear grew steadily and became too strong for her faith in the Lord taking care of her, and very quickly her obsession ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... of a nation going into exile, Mr. JONES has always a keen eye for the picturesque and even humorous aspects of the tragedy; he has a quick sense of the effective which enables him to touch in many haunting pictures—the delusive peace of a sunny Autumn day among the Bosnian mountains; the face of KING PETER seen for a moment by lamplight amid a crowd of refugees; and countless others. More than a passing mention also is due to the many quite ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 152, Feb. 7, 1917 • Various

... blasphemies of art! Here, pure from finite hues the very night Conceives the mystic harmonies of light, Delicious glooms and gleams; And sorrow falls in rose-leaves on the heart, And pain that yearns upon the passing hour Is but a perfume haunting a ...

— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes

... laughter has grown a sob of pain, and sorrow and death have become what the feast, the battle, and the chase are to other men. It is the black secret, the secret of the coming trouble, that makes Tohomish's voice like the voice of a pine; so that men say it has in it sweetness and mystery and haunting woe, moving the heart as no other can. And if he tells the secret, eloquence and life go with it. Shall Tohomish tell it? Will Multnomah listen while Tohomish shows what is to befall the bridge and the Willamettes in the ...

— The Bridge of the Gods - A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. • Frederic Homer Balch

... child grew up, so pallid and so slender, and with much unaccountable nervousness, and all the weaknesses of neglected infancy still haunting her, the gross and simple neighbors whispered strange things about Priscilla. The big, red, Irish matrons, whose innumerable progeny swarmed out of the adjacent doors, used to mock at the pale Western child. They fancied—or, at least, affirmed it, between ...

— The Blithedale Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne

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