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Case that would be haunting under English (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

vocative

'case' is the definition.
(vocative is a kind of case)

I don't understand how the remainder of the clue works.

(Another definition for vocative that I've seen is " Addressing case (gram.)".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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