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present participle and gerund of backslide examples
comparative more backsliding, superlative most backsliding
sliding back examples
plural backslidings
An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense. quotations examples
We have had many stumblings and many backslidings.
1918, Walter Raleigh, England and the War
If their actions are bad, look back and inquire into the cause of their backslidings.
1851, Harvey Newcomb, A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females
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.
1906, Charles Kingsley, Out of the Deep