Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who backslides.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who backslides.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
recidivist ; one whobackslides , especially in areligious sense; anapostate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
Etymologies
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Examples
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Henry has been called a backslider because of the lenity of his counsels, but I cannot but think it is the Spirit of Christ that influences him.
The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward 1889
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Henry has been called a backslider because of the lenity of his counsels, but I cannot but think it is the Spirit of Christ that influences him.
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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The "backslider" is an excellent illustration of the results of periodic renewal of impulse to right living.
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And as for the common, partial, and ignorant histories of France, written in our tongue, they generally make him a kind of backslider, who might have been a Huguenot
Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance Hilaire Belloc 1911
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"There'd ought to be children's words and grownup words, -- that's what I think," said Sue, decisively; "but what does 'backslider' mean?"
Homespun Tales Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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Goldstein was the renegade and backslider who once, long ago (how long ago nobody quite remembered), had been one of the leading figures of the Party, almost on a level with BIG BROTHER himself, and then had engaged in counter-revolutionary activities, had been condemned to death and had mysteriously escaped and disappeared.
Is anyone uncomfortable with the imposition of the "2 minute hate" this week? Not a sheep 2009
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One backslider returned to the fold is a greater victory than a thousand heathen.
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Why, for that matter, should the international community trust a backslider with a track record of preferring force to freedom?
Democracy Is the Only Solution in Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana 2010
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Why, for that matter, should the international community trust a backslider with a track record of preferring force to freedom?
Democracy Is the Only Solution in Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana 2010
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Why, for that matter, should the international community trust a backslider with a track record of preferring force to freedom?
Democracy Is the Only Solution in Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana 2010
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