retrograde
adjective
moving backward; having a backward motion or direction; retiring or retreating.
had been retrograding
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past perfect progressiveof retrograde.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 a man who maintained that after the death of St. Thomas Aquinas the world had made no more progress, and that since St. John Lateran had left it, humanity had been retrograding.
From The Social Cancer by Charles E. Derbyshire
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