acquaint
verb (used with object)
to make more or less familiar, aware, or conversant (usually followed bywith ).
had been acquainting
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past perfect progressiveof acquaint.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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I saw that Mistress Mary had been acquainting him with what had passed and her puzzlement over it.
From The Heart's Highway by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
She told me she had been acquainting the queen with the whole affair, and that the queen quite approved of our staying upstairs.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney
It belonged to Peggy, who, in all probability, had been acquainting the General with its contents as Mr. Anderson and herself intruded upon the scene.
From The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution by James Francis Barrett
