backsliding

backsliding

backsliding

1. Present participle of backslide.

backsliding (plural backslidings)

1. 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.

backsliding (comparative more backsliding, superlative most backsliding)

1. sliding back

Altri significati:

An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense

sliding back

Present participle of backslide.

Traduzione 'veloce'

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