propound
verb (used with object)
to put forward or offer for consideration, acceptance, or adoption; set forth; propose.
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
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That really sounds something like a bathos, after the great big Greek word which you have been propounding to me as the cure for all my doubts.”
From Phaethon by Charles Kingsley