effect
noun
something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence.
had been effecting
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past perfect progressiveof effect.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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The little fat elderly man put his fingers exactly where the other's had been, effecting the exchange with a sharp gesture; and each watched intently to see that it was right to within a millimetre.
From The Path to Rome by Hilaire Belloc
Oh, as usual,” he said, glancing at the complete disorder which they had been effecting.
From Eric, or Little by Little by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
For several months before the actual declaration of war with Spain, the Navy Department had been effecting this concentration.
From The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power by Carl Russell Fish
