1) Drop away 2) Drop off 3) Exclusively Saxon word 4) Exclusively Anglo word 5) Fall away 6) Fall off the wagon 7) Lapse 8) Return to sinful ways 9) Reverse progress 10) Slip 11) To regress 12) To shirk responsibility 13) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 14) Word of purely Anglo origin
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1) Err 2) Lapse 3) Regress 4) Relapse 5) Revert
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Backsliding, also known as falling away, 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, when a person turns from God to pursue their own desire. In Christianity, within denominations which teach Arminianism, such as ...
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• (v. i.) To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
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To move backward in freefall relative to a neutral reference. Usually unintentional and undesirable, caused by poor body position
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Back'slide' (-slīd'; 277) intransitive verb [ imperfect Backslid ; past participle Backslidden Backslid ; present participle & verbal noun Backsliding .] [ Back , adverb + slide
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