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▪ I. haunting, vbl. n.|ˈhɔːntɪŋ, ˈhɑːnt-|
[f. haunt v. + -ing1.]
The action of haunt v. †a. Practice, exercise. b. Customary resort; frequenting; visitation by fears, suspicions, imaginary beings, spirits, etc.
a1325Prose Psalter liv. [lv.] 2 Ich am made sori in my haunteyng [in exercitatione mea]. c1400Rom. Rose 6084 Telle in what place is thyn hauntyng. 1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. x. 27 The hauntyng and continuance therof be nedefull. 1558T. Phaer æneid. iv. K j b, A byrd that nere the bankes of seas his haunting keepes. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 57 Avoid the haunting of brothell houses. 1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland 126 To escape the hauntings of Ghosts. 1817Coleridge Sibyl. Leaves (1862) 222 She had a sore grief of her own, A haunting in her brain. 1847Tennyson Princ. ii. 389 I have..No ghostly hauntings like his Highness.
▪ II. ˈhaunting, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That haunts, in various senses of the vb.
1388Wyclif Prov. Prol., The hauntende puple [frequens turba]. 1483Cath. Angl. 179/2 Hawntynge, exercens, exercitans. 1605Shakes. Macb. i. vi. 4 The Temple-haunting Barlet [mod. edd, martlet]. 1836Keble Serm. viii. Postscr. (1848) 412 Exempting them..from haunting doubts. 1887Pall Mall G. 10 Sept. 3/1 We seek in vain for haunting cadences or phrases of rare felicity. |