had been adumbrating

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of adumbrate.
  adumbrate

  verb (used with object)

  to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.

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