Noun : a backslide from his early training. From Dictionary.com.
The "backslider" is an excellent illustration of the results of periodic renewal of impulse to right living. From Wordnik.com. [Church Cooperation in Community Life] Reference
“You need not be afraid that I shall be a backslider.”. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Richmond] Reference
"Yes, he's my dog if he is a backslider, and that settles it.". From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
B answered: "Oh, yes, I do; I'm not such a backslider as that.". From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
This hardly tags him as a play to the gate political backslider. From Wordnik.com. [Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Gibbs Need Not Apologize for Blasting the "Professional Left"] Reference
It doth not say, "And any one but a backslider; any one but him.". From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Or perhaps Najeeb was turning into an infidel, a worldly backslider. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Warlord's Son by Dan Fesperman] Reference
"The lot of the backslider is justifiably awful," was Paul's rejoinder. From Wordnik.com. [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference
I went to see a backslider, whom the Lord had made willing to return. From Wordnik.com. [Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York] Reference
There were fingerprints on our backslider that do not match Marlene or mine. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: What Happened to Sabrina Aisenberg? - March 7, 2001] Reference
One backslider returned to the fold is a greater victory than a thousand heathen. From Wordnik.com. [THE GOD OF HIS FATHERS] Reference
If you do see a dental backslider the culprit is usually a retiree from Minnesota. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Krotz: The Secret Lives Of Dentists] Reference
Sad, sad letter from a backslider by Andy Harris on Monday, Oct 20, 2008 at 8: 56: 13 PM. From Wordnik.com. [An open letter to Sarah Palin, from Marlene Winell, Ph.D.] Reference
Demas is that which points him out as a backslider; and as such he must be for ever known. From Wordnik.com. [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference
In their eyes, the backslider was palpably a far more unsavory fact than the original sinner. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
Hank could be headstrong and willful, a backslider and a reprobate, no stranger to bad deeds. From Wordnik.com. [Inside Dylan's Brain: Duff McDonald] Reference
Henry Ward Beecher, the famous orator and fornicating backslider, was in the honored tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Church Going] Reference
Neverl Cridland, the Lord has said, 'The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways.'. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
After several voyages Borella became "cold and a backslider," and an eye disease nearly blinded him. From Wordnik.com. [The Kirk on Rutgers Farm] Reference
Arroyo is one of several Asian leaders who came to power as a reformer, then devolved into a backslider. From Wordnik.com. [Failed Expectations] Reference
In 2006, CPJ named Ethiopia the world's "worst backslider on press freedom over the previous five years". From Wordnik.com. [Alemayehu G. Mariam: The Art of War on Ethiopia's Independent Press] Reference
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. From Wordnik.com. [Proverbs 14.] Reference
Your correspondent encountered six white-chokered gentlemen on their way to interview the great nautical backslider. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference
And therefore you shall find, that the recovering of a backslider usually begins at the remembrance of former things. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Oh, Daniel, you've come here and you've brought good and wealth, but you have also brought your bad habits as a backslider. From Wordnik.com. [Movie Speech] Reference
Why, for that matter, should the international community trust a backslider with a track record of preferring force to freedom?. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy Is the Only Solution in Madagascar] Reference
"Has the backslider been brought again to the fold?". From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
Miss Silence had looked upon her as little better than a backslider. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian Angel] Reference
During his wanderings as a backslider, Beta had both joined and aided. From Wordnik.com. [George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God] Reference
He set his teeth together and cursed himself for a fool and a backslider. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
The former shows us the backslider in heart as filled 'with his own ways.'. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
Why, Zeke Bassett and the rest have been finding fault with her and calling her a backslider. From Wordnik.com. [Keziah Coffin] Reference
It is well known that the recovery of the backslider is one of the hardest problems in spiritual work. From Wordnik.com. [Natural Law in the Spiritual World] Reference
"De time am comin 'w'en dat backslider got to be sot on," he would mutter, and this seemed his one consolation. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Trembled] Reference
Moreover, anger and severity are not the successful means of reclaiming the backslider, or of melting the obdurate. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind of Jesus] Reference
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