- lapse: drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards
- (backsliding) a failure to maintain a higher state
- Backsliding is a term used within Christianity to describe a process by which an individual who has converted to Christianity reverts to pre-conversion habits and/or lapses or falls into sin. ...
- To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state; To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments
- (backsliding) An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense; sliding back
- (Backsliding) The actions of a Christian who seems to be losing their faith or behaving in an "un-Christian" manner. (Backslider.)
- To move backward in freefall relative to a neutral reference. Usually unintentional and undesirable, caused by poor body position.
- To draw back or apostatize in matters of religion (Act 21:21; Th2 2:3; Ti1 4:1). This may be either partial (Pro 14:14) or complete (Heb 6:4; Heb 10:38, Heb 10:39). The apostasy may be both doctrinal and moral.
- a grind in which the skater uses only the trailing skate; the free skate is normally grabbed.
- (1) AVOIDwg. (2) [V] touches FT to [B], PO up, and "slips and falls".
- A grind using only the back foot , balancing carefully on the boot and frame.
- to revert to sin or wrongdoing, to lapse morally or in the practice of religion. "Backsliding" is a term found mainly in the Book of Jeremiah (2:19; 31:22; 49:4). It refers to the lapse of the nation of Israel into paganism and idolatry.
- According to Wesleyan doctrine, the ability to fall from the born-again state because of sinning, as illustrated in Ezekiel 18:21-24.