Backsliding
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Backsliding is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of backslide.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of backslide.
More Meanings
- sliding back
- An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.
Example Sentences
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.
Word Forms
- backslidings
Synonyms for backsliding
Depending on context, synonyms include lapse, reversion, relapse, recidivism, reverting, relapsing.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include relapse, relapsing, reversion, recidivism, lapse, lapsing.
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