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has been lapsing
  • present perfect progressive of lapse (3rd person singular).

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And now I have to confess that all this time, whilst Ethel Newcome has been growing in grace with my wife, poor Clive has been lapsing sadly out of favour.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace