class
noun
a number of persons or things regarded as forming a group by reason of common attributes, characteristics, qualities, or traits; kind; sort.
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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But she had become a young woman while his slow thoughts were classing her still as a child.
From Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 by Holman Day