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had been avenging
  • past perfect progressive of avenge.

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I had been avenging myself on the Sch�nberg-Gersdorf past by means of the Cotta-Reichenbach future.

From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Charles, Elizabeth Rundle

With the unconscious egotism of the devotee, he felt that heaven had been avenging the impiousness of his sin.

From The Puritans by Bates, Arlo