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have been possessing
  • present perfect progressive of possess.

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The same idea must have been possessing Doe, for he was saying: "Somehow I could forgive everything to those fellows you've been telling us about, but I'm blowed if I can forgive myself everything."

From Tell England A Study in a Generation by Raymond, Ernest