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Definition of Backslider
1. Noun. Someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior.
Generic synonyms: Offender, Wrongdoer
Derivative terms: Backslide, Recidivism
Definition of Backslider
1. n. One who backslides.
Definition of Backslider
1. Noun. A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Backslider
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backslider
Literary usage of Backslider
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1876)
"The backslider in heart shall Ъc filled with hie own ways : and a good man ...
The backslider and the good man are very different, but in each of them the ..."
2. Lectures on Revivals of Religion by Charles Grandison Finney (1835)
"The backslider is any one who was once converted, but who does not enjoy secret
prayer, and hold daily communion, with God. A man may keep up the form of ..."
3. Dictionary of Anecdote, Incident, Illustrative Fact: Selected and Arranged by Walter Baxendale (1888)
"The words were the means of bringing the backslider back again to ... backslider,
and prayer. At family prayer little Mary, one evening when all was silent, ..."
4. The Christian Examiner (1836)
"The backslider " is intended to illustrate the influence of Christianity on minds
differently constituted, — particularly on the two principal characters of ..."
5. Illustrations of the Book of Proverbs by William Arnot (1863)
"THE backslider. " The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways."—xiv.
14. IF the secret history of backsliders were written, many startling ..."
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