inhaunt

English

Alternative forms

• enhaunt

Etymology

From in- +‎ haunt.

Verb

inhaunt (third-person singular simple present inhaunts, present participle inhaunting, simple past and past participle inhaunted)

1. (rare, transitive) To inhabit, frequent, or haunt.
   • 1633, The Whole Booke of Psalmes:

     Wilt thou inhaunt thy selfe, and draw with wicked men to fit?

   • 2010, Jason Murk, Mexican Song of Sunshine:

     Pinprick spiders inhaunt the nether regions — inhaunt is to inhabit in a haunting way — and vie with lurid grotto larvae, wormy creatures with flabby wings which are as veiny and pulsating as an engorged penis.

   • 2013, Douglas Stockwell, The Coin, the Sword, and Open Book, page 151:

     Your dead, and ancient holy sisters, too
     who lost their order's head by ordered sword,
     so all would nevermore enhaunt our door.