were unlearning
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past progressiveof unlearn.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
unlearnverb (used with object)to forget or lose knowledge of.
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Hence, while they were unlearning them gradually and imperceptibly, with careful watching, they were not disturbed by the changed conditions of existence, and they were becoming different without knowing it.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Herbert Baldwin Foster