were groping
-pelotais
Past progressive conjugation of grope. There are other translations for this conjugation.

grope

Their light went out, and they were groping in darkness.
La lumière s’évanouit et elles errèrent çà et dans les ténèbres.
How could He resign Himself to such a fate, and leave them in greater darkness than that in which they were groping before He revealed Himself to them?
Comment pouvait-Il se résigner à un tel sort et les laisser dans les ténèbres plus épaisses que celles où ils se trouvaient avant de le connaître ?
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