indite
verb (used with object)
to compose or write, as a poem.
had been inditing
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past perfect progressiveof indite.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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The shock of Frederic's military successes made him suddenly drop the pen with which he had been inditing Anacreontics, and weak, rhymeless Horatian moods.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 by Various
While Mrs Massey had been talking to Gerald, Owen had been inditing an answer to Norah’s note, with which, rather later than he had intended, Gerald set off to return home.
From The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley by William Henry Giles Kingston
