Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- intransitive v. To revert to sin or wrongdoing, especially in religious practice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
- v. To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- intransitive v. To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To slide back, in a figurative sense; apostatize; turn from the faith; depart from or abandon religious principles or practices.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
Etymologies
Examples
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I find in myself a natural aversion to my duty, and to spiritual and divine exercises, and a propensity to that which is evil, such an inclination towards the world and the flesh as amounts to a propensity to backslide from the living
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Just a few months after passing comprehensive health reform, U.S. lawmakers appear willing to risk a short-term backslide in the push to reduce the number of uninsured Americans until the overhaul's major provisions take effect in
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Somewhere along the way, deep in our long term backslide in education spending and the decline of leisure time we produced a society of people impatient to study a situation then react in a non-violent way.
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Another method of the devil to cause you to backslide is to induce you to practice something again that you told
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As some people already know, a dance move called the moonwalk (aka backslide) had been existed before it became the "moonwalk".
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There are many recorded instances of the moonwalk, originally known as the backslide or
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It is with a sense of profound ennui that one reads today the enthralling news that, "Gordon Brown hinted … that he could yet call a referendum on the new EU reform treaty if fellow European leaders 'backslide' on deals struck by Tony Blair to protect British sovereignty."
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But, notably, the hearings board said small - and medium-sized cities can't "backslide" as a result of its ruling.
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He said delay will allow the Conservatives to "backslide".
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If we are kept and Satan can't snatch us back, we can't "backslide".
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