had been excommunicating

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of excommunicate.
  excommunicate

  verb (used with object)

  to cut off from communion with a church or exclude from the sacraments of a church by ecclesiastical sentence.

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