resign
verb (used without object)
to give up an office or position, often formally (often followed byfrom ).
had been resigning
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past perfect progressiveof resign.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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So might she have spoken if, in religious fervour, she had been resigning her child to death.
From The Man Thou Gavest by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
