indite
verb (used with object)
to compose or write, as a poem.
was inditing
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past progressiveof indite.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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While I was inditing the goodly matter which my readers have just perused, I might be said to go through a course of breaking-in to stand criticism, like a shooting-pony to stand fire.
From The Surgeon's Daughter by Sir Walter Scott
R. L. S. Eructavit cor meum My heart was inditing a goodly matter about Adela Chart.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
The girl had reached the editor's desk now, and was waiting until he had finished the paragraph his pen was inditing.
From The Veiled Lady and Other Men and Women by Francis Hopkinson Smith
This moment I was thinking of you, my dear," he said; "I was inditing a long letter to you in my head, which these lazy old fingers of mine would have refused to write.
From Cobwebs and Cables by Hesba Stretton
But Cerberus himself could not have stopped John Pike; his conscience backed him up in trespass the most sinful when his heart was inditing of a trout upon the rise.
From Crocker's Hole From "Slain By The Doones" By R. D. Blackmore by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
