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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Backslide \Back"slide"\ (b[a^]k"sl[imac]d"; 277), verb (used without an object) [imp. {Backslid}; p. p. {Backslidden}, {Backslid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Backsliding}.] [Back, adverb + slide.] To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Backsliding \Back"slid"ing\, adjective Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning.
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. --Jer. iii. 14.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Backsliding \Back"slid"ing\, noun The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty.
Our backslidings are many. --Jer. xiv. 7.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
backsliding
noun: a failure to maintain a higher state [syn: {lapse}, {lapsing}, {relapse}, {relapsing}, {reversion}, {reverting}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
139 Moby Thesaurus words for "backsliding": Adamic, about-face, amorality, apostasy, apostate, atheism, atheistic, backing, backset, backslide, backward motion, backward step, betrayal, blasphemous, bolt, breakaway, carnal, carnality, criminality, defection, delinquency, desertion, disenchantment, disloyalty, erring, evil, evil nature, faithlessness, fall, fall from grace, fallen, fallen from grace, fleshly, flip-flop, frail, going over, immorality, impiety, impious, impiousness, impure, impurity, infirm, irreligion, irreligious, irreverence, irreverent, lapse, lapse from grace, lapsed, lapsing, moral delinquency, of easy virtue, peccability, peccable, postlapsarian, prodigal, prodigality, profanatory, profane, ratting, reaction, recession, recidivation, recidivism, recidivist, recidivistic, recidivous, reclamation, reconversion, recreancy, recreant, recrudescent, reentry, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, regressive, rehabilitation, reinstatement, relapse, relapsing, renegade, restitution, restoration, retroaction, retrocession, retroflexion, retrogradation, retrogression, retroversion, retrusion, return, returning, reversal, reverse, reversion, reverting, revulsion, rollback, sacrilegious, secession, setback, slipping back, sternway, throwback, treason, turn, turnabout, turning traitor, unangelic, unangelicalness, unchaste, unchastity, unclean, uncleanness, undutiful, undutifulness, ungodliness, ungodly, ungood, ungoodness, unmorality, unrighteous, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unsaintly, unvirtuous, unvirtuousness, vice, viciousness, virtueless, wanton, wantonness, wayward, waywardness, weak, wrongdoing
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