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Definition of Haunting

1. Adjective. Continually recurring to the mind. "The cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"

2. Adjective. Having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect. "From two handsome and talented young men to two haunting horrors of disintegration"

Definition of Haunting

1. Verb. (present participle of ''haunt'') ¹

2. Noun. A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Haunting

1. haunt [v] - See also: haunt

Lexicographical Neighbors of Haunting

haunced haunces haunch haunched haunches haunching hauncing haunt haunted haunted houses

hauntedly hauntedness haunter haunters haunting (current term) hauntingly hauntingness hauntings haunts hauriant

haurient hause haused hausen hausens hauses hausfrau hausfrauen hausfraus

Literary usage of Haunting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reconnoitring Central Asia: Pioneering Adventures in the Region Lying by Charles Thomas Marvin (1886)
"Now, in Colonel Stewart's paper the Royal Geographical Society can see the results of such 'haunting,' and I only wish that other inaccessible parts of Asia ..."

2. English Hunger and Industrial Disorders: A Study of Social Conflict During by Walter James Shelton (1922)
"... haunting FINGERS A PHANTASY IN A MUSEUM OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS " A RE you awake, -tx Comrades, this silent night ? Well 'twere if all of our glossy ..."

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