had been guillotining

• 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 guillotine.
  guillotine

  noun

  a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides: widely used during the French Revolution.

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