'Backsliding' definitions:
Definition of 'backsliding'
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Definition of 'Backsliding'
From: GCIDE
- Backsliding \Back"slid"ing\, n. The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. [1913 Webster]
- Our backslidings are many. --Jer. xiv. 7. [1913 Webster] backspace
Definition of 'Backsliding'
From: GCIDE
- Backslide \Back"slide"\ (b[a^]k"sl[imac]d"; 277), v. i. [imp. Backslid; p. p. Backslidden, Backslid; p. pr. & vb. n. Backsliding.] [Back, adv. + slide.] To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Backsliding'
From: GCIDE
- Backsliding \Back"slid"ing\, a. Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. [1913 Webster]
- Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. --Jer. iii. 14. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'backsliding'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- about-face,
- Adamic,
- amorality,
- apostasy,
- apostate,
- atheism,
- atheistic,
- backing,
- backset,
- backslide,
- backward motion,
- backward step,
- betrayal,
- blasphemous,
- bolt,
- breakaway,
- carnal,
- carnality,
- criminality,
- defection,
- delinquency,
- desertion,
- disenchantment,
- disloyalty,
- erring,
- evil,
- evil nature,
- faithlessness,
- fall,
- fall from grace,
- fallen,
- fallen from grace,
- fleshly,
- flip-flop,
- frail,
- going over,
- immorality,
- impiety,
- impious,
- impiousness,
- impure,
- impurity,
- infirm,
- irreligion,
- irreligious,
- irreverence,
- irreverent,
- lapse,
- lapse from grace,
- lapsed,
- lapsing,
- moral delinquency,
- of easy virtue,
- peccability,
- peccable,
- postlapsarian,
- prodigal,
- prodigality,
- profanatory,
- profane,
- ratting,
- reaction,
- recession,
- recidivation,
- recidivism,
- recidivist,
- recidivistic,
- recidivous,
- reclamation,
- reconversion,
- recreancy,
- recreant,
- recrudescent,
- reentry,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regress,
- regression,
- regressive,
- rehabilitation,
- reinstatement,
- relapse,
- relapsing,
- renegade,
- restitution,
- restoration,
- retroaction,
- retrocession,
- retroflexion,
- retrogradation,
- retrogression,
- retroversion,
- retrusion,
- return,
- returning,
- reversal,
- reverse,
- reversion,
- reverting,
- revulsion,
- rollback,
- sacrilegious,
- secession,
- setback,
- slipping back,
- sternway,
- throwback,
- treason,
- turn,
- turnabout,
- turning traitor,
- unangelic,
- unangelicalness,
- unchaste,
- unchastity,
- unclean,
- uncleanness,
- undutiful,
- undutifulness,
- ungodliness,
- ungodly,
- ungood,
- ungoodness,
- unmorality,
- unrighteous,
- unrighteousness,
- unsaintliness,
- unsaintly,
- unvirtuous,
- unvirtuousness,
- vice,
- viciousness,
- virtueless,
- wanton,
- wantonness,
- wayward,
- waywardness,
- weak,
- wrongdoing