backsliding : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: backsliding	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for backsliding
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
backsliding n a failure to maintain a higher state [syn: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Backsliding \Back"slid"ing\, a. Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. --Jer. iii. 14.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Backslide \Back`slide"\, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Backsliding \Back"slid"ing\, n. The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. Our backslidings are many. --Jer. xiv. 7.