backsliding
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.