had been forbearing
- past perfect progressive of forbear.
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He reproached the whites with the violation of their treaty obligations, and declared that the Indians had been forbearing in the extreme under the wrongs which had been inflicted upon them.
From Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)