What does backsliding mean?
Backsliding means present participle and gerund of backslide.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
present participle and gerund of backslide.
democratic backsliding
We have had many stumblings and many backslidings.
If their actions are bad, look back and inquire into the cause of their backslidings.
All their struggles, disappointments, failures, backslidings, which made them unhappy here, because they could not perfectly do the will of God, are past and over for ever.
That is why any backsliding – disappearing to the toilet at last orders; ordering crazily expensive drinks on other people’s rounds; abruptly leaving after two pints – is sacrilege.
Use backsliding when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Backsliding means present participle and gerund of backslide.
Common synonyms include lapse, reversion, relapse, recidivism.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
democratic backsliding
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