counsel
noun
advice; opinion or instruction given in directing the judgment or conduct of another.
had been counselling
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past perfect progressiveof counsel.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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He had been counselling himself to patience and entire reliance upon God's providence while waiting the opportunity "to create or procure the circumstances" necessary to the expression of his own individuality.
From Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott
I daresay the words were his, for he had been counselling Owen.
From A Prince of Cornwall A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
Yet all his life he had been counselling other people in their anxieties.
From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Sir Walter Besant
