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backsliding, adj.

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Etymology: Formed as backsliding n.   + -ing suffix2.
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  Falling away from the faith, relapsing into sin, apostate; also lit. sliding or slipping back.

1611   Bible (King James) Hosea iv. 16   Israel slideth backe, as a back~sliding heifer.  
1816   Scott Old Mortality viii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 166   A backsliding pastor, that has..forsaken the strict path.
1869   J. Phillips Vesuvius iv. 131   Wading up the loose and backsliding slope.

1611—1869(Hide quotations)

 

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  backslidingness   n.

1864—1864(Hide quotations)

 

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