BACKSLIDING

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.

2.
n.

The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. Our backslidings are many. Jer. xiv. 7.


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