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Definition of Backslides
1. backslide [v] - See also: backslide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backslides
Literary usage of Backslides
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)
"When an individual backslides, if he continues in that way without reformation,
sooner or later the very same thing will come upon him which he dreaded, ..."
2. Bushido, the Soul of Japan: An Exposition of Japanese Thought by Inazō Nitobe (1905)
"... its birthright of peace, and backslides from the front rank of industrialism
into the file of ..."
3. Christianizing the Social Order by Walter Rauschenbusch (1912)
"So the poor fellow backslides. Suppose a millionaire has been at a meeting where
he has caught a vision of a new order of business, ..."
4. The Social Principles of Jesus by Walter Rauschenbusch (1916)
"It is worse yet if a man whose name has long been a guarantee for his message,
backslides and brings doubt upon all his previous professions. ..."