| 单词 | house-haunting |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse-haunting house-haunting n. and adj. ΚΠ 1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures xxi. 137 All these brainlesse imaginations, of witchings, possessings, house-hanting, and the rest, were the forgeries..of craftie priests. 1778 J. Matlock Apostasy Broad Way to Hell 75 That account of a wicked, rambling, house-haunting and street-strolling devil. 1896 Daily News 21 May 8/1 The Lares, the house-haunting spirits of ancestors. 1919 Stud. Philol. 16 243 In house-haunting as in other matters pertaining to their unhallowed profession, the witches of the New World followed the lead of their exemplars across the Atlantic. 2001 Augusta (Georgia) Chron. (Nexis) 20 Dec. (Neighbors section) 2 What a ghost story it is, too, beginning with the house-haunting, chain-rattling, decomposing countenance of Marley. < as lemmas |
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