backsliding
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Verb
[edit]backsliding
- present participle and gerund of backslide
Adjective
[edit]backsliding (comparative more backsliding, superlative most backsliding)
Noun
[edit]backsliding (plural backslidings)
- An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.
- 1918, Walter Raleigh, England and the War[1]:
- We have had many stumblings and many backslidings.
- 1851, Harvey Newcomb, A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females[2]:
- If their actions are bad, look back and inquire into the cause of their backslidings.
- 1906, Charles Kingsley, Out of the Deep[3]:
- 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.
- 2018 June 6, Tony Naylor, “The new rules of pub etiquette: don't flirt with bar staff or steal the glasses”, in The Guardian[4], →ISSN:
- 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.