backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting
(noun) a failure to maintain a higher state
Source: WordNet® 3.1
backsliding
present participle of backslide
backsliding (comparative more backsliding, superlative most backsliding)
sliding back
backsliding (plural backslidings)
An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense
Source: Wiktionary
Back"slid"ing, a.
Definition: Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.
Back"slid"ing, n.
Definition: The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. Our backslidings are many. Jer. xiv. 7.
Back`slide", v. i. [imp. Backslid; p.p. Backslidden, Backslid; p. pr. & vb. n. Backsliding. ] Etym: [Back , adv.+ slide.]
Definition: To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 January 2025
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
