had been exorcising
- past perfect progressive of exorcise.
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As he ran, he heard the old woman clapping her hands, and crying “Shoo, shoo!” as if she had been exorcising a winged demon.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay
