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Spectre vs Haunting - What's the difference?

spectre | haunting |

As nouns the difference between spectre and haunting

is that spectre is while haunting is a particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation.

As a verb haunting is

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spectre

English

Noun

(en noun)
    • The spectre is a ghost of a decapitated young man.
  • * Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
    • To this extenuated spectre , perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner

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    haunting

    English

    Verb

    (head)
    • A ghost was haunting the house.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation.
    • During the haunting , strange voices were heard and objects flew off tables.

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