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have been impelling
  • present perfect progressive of impel.

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Yet there was another side to the question: the other officers were spontaneous and candid in their dealings with her, while obscurity and indefiniteness always seemed to have been impelling forces with Cummings.

From In the Van; or, The Builders by Price-Brown, John