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Definition of Fall away
1. Verb. Get worse. "My grades are slipping"
Generic synonyms: Decline, Worsen
Specialized synonyms: Backslide, Lapse
Derivative terms: Drop-off, Slippage
2. Verb. Diminish in size or intensity.
Definition of Fall away
1. Verb. (intransitive) To cease to support a person or cause. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fall Away
Literary usage of Fall away
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts by Jonathan Edwards (1821)
"Nor can they ever fall away so as habitually to be more engaged in other things
than in ... 13. but they •re cursed that fall away in » day of temptation. ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"... whose two peaks fall away abruptly to the Nahr al-Zarka. Toward the east the
Jabal 'Ajlun changes into a rolling hill country which finally reaches the ..."
3. Publications (1853)
"which they, notwithstanding, sought to make him fall away. But as he was not to
be moved, and remaining steadfast, he testified to the truth and his love to ..."
4. The Works of James Arminius, D. D., Formerly Professor of Divinity in the by Jacobus Arminius (1853)
"It is possible for believers finally to decline and fall away from faith and
salvation. ANSWER. The connection between these two articles is so intimate, ..."
5. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"Nor can they ever fall away, so as habitually to be more engaged in other ...
Nor can a true saint ever fall away so, that ordinarily there shall be no ..."
6. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829)
"Nor can they ever fall away, so as habitually to be more engaged in other ...
Nor can a true saint ever fall away so, that ordinarily there shall be no ..."
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