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Definition of Backsliders
1. backslider [n] - See also: backslider
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backsliders
Literary usage of Backsliders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Revivals of Religion by Charles Grandison Finney (1835)
"H. IN remarking on this text I shall inquire, I. Who are backsliders ? II. ...
I. Who are backsliders ? 1. The term backslide means to go back from a point. ..."
2. Sermons on Several Occasions by John Wesley (1836)
"A Call to backsliders. " Will the Lord absent himself for ever ? And will he be
no more entreated.' " Is his mercy clean gone for ever ? ..."
3. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1845)
"In his travels he had many trials and exercises by false brethren, backsliders,
and apostates, besides his perils by the sea, and among the priests and ..."
4. History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin by Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné (1880)
"DIPLOMATISTS, backsliders, MARTYRS. (1531.) THE royal trio was now broken up.
Margaret, knowing well that her mother had always influenced her brother in ..."
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