doubt
verb (used with object)
to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
had been doubting
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past perfect progressiveof doubt.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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Mr. Crowley was venturing rather far with the victim, but he was encouraged by Latisan’s continued mildness and by a firm determination to set himself right with Mern, who had been doubting his efficiency.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Day, Holman
She was pleased—pleased and grateful; for did not that expression show that her child was capable of grieving for his mother's wrongs and of feeling resentment toward her persecutors?—a thing which she had been doubting.
From The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Twain, Mark
It was just as if she had been doubting subconsciously all along....
From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
By convincing her that Fanny was very pretty, which she had been doubting about before, and that she would be advantageously married, it made her feel a sort of credit in calling her niece.
From Mansfield Park by Austen, Jane
Poor fellow! he had walked all that distance in the cold and the snow only for one word—and this was the man I had been doubting and misjudging all day!
From Kate Coventry An Autobiography by Whyte-Melville, G. J.
