backslider
1Backslider — Back slid er, n. One who backslides. [1913 Webster] …
2backslider — *renegade, apostate, recreant, turncoat …
3backslider — noun I ll have no backslider like you in my family Syn: recidivist, regressor; defector, deserter, turncoat, apostate, fallen angel …
4backslider — backslide ► VERB (past backslid; past part. backslid or backslidden) ▪ relapse into bad ways. DERIVATIVES backslider noun backsliding noun …
5backslider — noun see backslide …
6backslider — See backslide. * * * …
7backslider — noun /ˈbakslaɪdə,ˈbækslaɪdəɻ/ A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate. At night the Red Elephant Tusk boomed and groaned among the hills, and the faithful waked and said: ‘The God of Things as They Are… …
8backslider — n. person who returns to evil or immoral ways …
9backslider — n. Apostate, deserter, renegade …
10backslider — n relapser, recidivist, regressor; sinner, fallen angel, lost soul, lost sheep, apostate, heretic …
