discipline
noun
training to act in accordance with rules; drill.
had been disciplining
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past perfect progressiveof discipline.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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What right had she to ask him any question, when for these seven nights and days since they had parted she had been disciplining herself not to think of him in any way?
From Beyond The Rocks A Love Story by Elinor Glyn
She had been disciplining herself under Rodney's own definition of the term.
From The Real Adventure by Raymond Moreau Crosby
