backslidden

• One comrade tells of her, that finding one of her converts backslidden, and drinking in a public-house, she sat beside him while he drank of the cup of his destruction, then took him home. —  The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"
• Are you lukewarm, backslidden or presently living in sin? —  In The Days
• And they will come to a couple of conclusions -- that the person never believed, or the person is severely backslidden to the point of complete blindness. —  WordPress.com News
• To the backslidden Christian who is out of fellowship and already quite miserable, however, suffering never brings blessing, and everything he touches turns to misery. —  The Christian Post RSS Feed
• Fortunately, I sat near a tangle of vines in which I discovered a dog was hiding, a hound who gazed imploringly at me through the leaves with the forlorn, backslidden-sinner expression peculiar to his species, as much as to say: "Don't tell I am here; maybe then I'll get a few crumbs later on." —  A Circuit Rider's Wife

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