BACKSLIDER

recidivist, backslider, reversionist

(noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

backslider (plural backsliders)

A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.

Anagrams

• blackrides

Source: Wiktionary


Back"slid"er, n.

Definition: One who backslides.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

6 October 2024

DATELESS

(adjective) of such great duration as to preclude the possibility of being assigned a date; “dateless customs”


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