About The Word Backsliding

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Backsliding

Backsliding Meaning & Definition
Backsliding Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Backsliding?

[n] a failure to maintain a higher state

Synonyms | Synonyms for Backsliding: lapse | lapsing | relapse | relapsing | reversion | reverting

Related Terms | Find terms related to Backsliding: 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

See Also | failure | recidivism

Backsliding In Webster's Dictionary

\Back"slid"ing\, a. Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. --Jer. iii. 14.
\Back"slid"ing\, n. The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. Our backslidings are many. --Jer. xiv. 7.

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