cohabit
verb (used without object)
to live together as if married, usually without legal or religious sanction.
was cohabiting
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past progressiveof cohabit.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In 1727 a white woman was indicted in the General Court because she had left her husband and was cohabiting with a negro slave....
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various
