had been mollycoddling

• 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 mollycoddle.
  mollycoddle

  noun

  a man or boy who is used to being coddled; a milksop.

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