prate
verb (used without object)
to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble.
had been prating
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past perfect progressiveof prate.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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Moore thought of it, but gave it up,—I don't know why. —— had been prating dignity to him, and such stuff; as if a man disgraced himself by instructing and pleasing at the same time.
From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Rowland Edmund Prothero, Baron Ernle
