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backsliding

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back·slide  (bksld)
intr.v. back·slid (-sld), back·slid·ing, back·slides
To revert to sin or wrongdoing, especially in religious practice.

backslider n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.backsliding - a failure to maintain a higher state
failure - an act that fails; "his failure to pass the test"
recidivism - habitual relapse into crime
Translations
backsliding [ˈbækˈslaɪdɪŋ] Nreincidencia f, recaída f
backsliding [ˈbækslaɪdɪŋ] nrécidive f
backsliding [ˈbækˌslaɪdɪŋ] nricaduta (in vizio, errore)
backsliding [ˈbækˌslaɪdɪŋ] nricaduta (in vizio, errore)


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Perkins, with this new condition of the body which made him so restless, his old feelings revived, and he reproached himself bitterly for his backsliding.
Though d'Urberville had declared that this breach of his engagement today was the simple backsliding of a believer, Tess's words, as echoed from Angel Clare, had made a deep impression upon him, and continued to do so after he had left her.
he who abandons his damsels in the very lists," she cried; "here have we been days, nay, ages, expecting you at our feet, imploring mercy and forgetfulness of your craven backsliding, or I should rather say, backrunning--for verily you fled in the manner that no stricken deer, as our worthy friend the scout would say, could equal
 
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