adore
verb (used with object)
to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
had been adoring
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past perfect progressiveof adore.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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Olga had been adoring her with a somewhat embarrassing intensity ever since the night she had locked her in her room and taught her to talk.
From The Real Adventure by Raymond Moreau Crosby
There, erect, fresh, neat, bright-eyed, fair-faced, smiling, and observant, sat Miss Alice Mayton, a lady who for about a year I had been adoring from afar.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — Fiction by Arthur Mee
He had been adoring her alter this fashion when he entered the quay, at the hour when the crowd was melting away, and he heard the anguish and tears of the flute-girls' chant.
From Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite by Pierre Lou?s
At another time, a blind priest had been adoring the bit of bread he had just consecrated, but when he went to eat it, it was gone.
From The Little Gleaner, Vol. X. A Monthly Magazine for the Young by Various
