enumerate
verb (used with object)
to mention separately as if in counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list.
had been enumerating
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past perfect progressiveof enumerate.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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Yet, Lucy, he plainly had been enumerating all these things, to take off from my mind that impression which I am afraid he too well knows it is affected with, from his difficult situation.
From The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson
