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H`AUNT,

1. To frequent to resort to much or often, or to be much about to visit customarily.

Celestial Venus haunts Idalia's groves.

2. To come to frequently to intrude on to trouble with frequent visits to follow importunately.

You wrong me, Sir, thus still to haunt my house.

Those cares that haunt the court and town.

3. It is particularly applied to specters or apparitions, which are represented by fear and credulity as frequenting or inhabiting old, decayed and deserted houses.

Foul spirits haunt my resting place.

H`AUNT, To be much about to visit or be present often.

I've charged thee not to haunt about my door.

H`AUNT, n. A place to which one frequently resorts. Taverns are often the haunts of tipplers. A den is the haunt of wild beasts.

1. The habit or custom of resorting to a place. Not used.

2. Custom practice.

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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.

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Entry for 'Haunt'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/h/haunt.html.

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