BACKSLIDING

backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting

(noun) a failure to maintain a higher state

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

backsliding

present participle of backslide

Adjective

backsliding (comparative more backsliding, superlative most backsliding)

sliding back

Noun

backsliding (plural backslidings)

An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense

Source: Wiktionary

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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.

BACKSLIDE

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

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