Backsliding

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ

Verb

1. Present participle of backslide

Full definition of backsliding

Adjective

1. sliding back

Noun

1. An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense
• 1918, Walter Raleigh, England and the War Chapter , We have had many stumblings and many backslidings.
• 1851, Harvey Newcomb, A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Chapter , If their actions are bad, look back and inquire into the cause of their backslidings.
• 1906, Charles Kingsley, Out of the Deep Chapter , 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.