had been gaging

• 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 gage.
  gage

  noun

  something, as a glove, thrown down by a medieval knight in token of challenge to combat.

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