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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I am not avised of her ever having let him feel her Sympathy, save when he was inditing to me his third Book, while she sate at her Sewing.
From Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary by Anne Manning
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
His military fever was slowly burning itself out, though he was able to fan the embers into flame when, later, he was inditing the adventures of "Maurice Tiernay."
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Edmund Downey
But my conscience smote me for having uttered a truth, even to aid a friend, and hastening back to Athens, I arrived behind the philosopher’s chair as he was inditing the ‘αυλός.’
From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various
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
