backsliding

• Rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ

backsliding

1. present participle of backslide

backsliding (comparative more backsliding, superlative most backsliding)

1. sliding back

backsliding (plural backslidings)

1. An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense
   • 1918, Walter Raleigh, England and the War‎:

     We have had many stumblings and many backslidings.

   • 1851, Harvey Newcomb, A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females‎:

     If their actions are bad, look back and inquire into the cause of their backslidings.

   • 1906, Charles Kingsley, Out of the Deep‎:

     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.