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# backsliding

«backsliding» in Mova's school dictionary: **Going back to bad old habits after you had been doing better** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (backsliding – uncountable); verb form (of «backslide»: backslide, backslides, backslid, backsliding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Going back to bad old habits after you had been doing better. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backsliding/#m1)

2) (church) Falling away from faith or from living as a Christian after having been committed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backsliding/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In church language, a «backslider» is someone who has turned away from faith; preachers in the 1800s used the word often. In everyday life it means slipping back: after New Year's resolutions, backsliding into eating too many sweets. In The Wind in the Willows Toad promises to be good, then backslides as soon as he sees a motor car.

### examples

- After a week of early nights, there was some backsliding at the weekend. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backsliding/#x1)
- The preacher warned the people against backsliding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backsliding/#x2)
- Toad promised to change, but his backsliding began at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backsliding/#x3)
- We must stop backsliding into old bad habits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backsliding/#x4)
- Christians believe God forgives the backsliding person who comes back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backsliding/#x5)
- My diet lasted two days before the backsliding started. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backsliding/#x6)

### note

Uncountable as a noun. Verb past: «backslid». A person is «a backslider».

### In the corpora

- [«You backsliding animal» cries the Badger (backsliding = slipping back into bad ways).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/46-willows-ch6-part2-not-sorry-and-locked-up/28/)
- [even the LORD said unto me — backsliding Israel hath proved herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.83/)
- [Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.242/)
- [How long wilt thou turn away coyly, O thou backsliding daughter?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.856/)
- [I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for Mine anger is turned away from him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.208/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «backsliding» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/backsliding/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.