were systematizing
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past progressiveof systematize.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
systematizeverb (used with object)
Example Sentences
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Now, these complaints were systematizing by the conversations of influential men, who retired into those wild countries, and who from principle, or from a series of particular heart-burnings, animated discontents already too near to effervescence.
From The Conqueror by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton