inflame
verb (used with object)
to kindle or excite (passions, desires, etc.).
had been inflaming
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past perfect progressiveof inflame.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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He was come back a greater Jacobite than ever, and Esmond suspected that some fair conspirators at Bruxelles had been inflaming the young man's ardour.
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury
He was come back a greater Jacobite than ever, and Esmond suspected that some fair conspirators at Bruxelles had been inflaming the young man's ardor.
From The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne by William Makepeace Thackeray
