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Webster 1913 Edition

Backsliding

Back′slid′ing

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

Back′slid′ing

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

Webster 1828 Edition

Backsliding

BACKSLI'DING

,
Noun.
The act of apostatizing from faith or practice; a falling insensibly from religion into sin or idolatry. Jer. v.6.

Definition 2024

backsliding

backsliding

English

Verb

backsliding

  1. present participle of backslide

Adjective

backsliding ‎(comparative more backsliding, superlative most backsliding)

  1. sliding back

Noun

backsliding ‎(plural backslidings)

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

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ

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