had been retrograding
- past perfect progressive of retrograde.
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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 Derbyshire, Charles E.