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Webster 1913 Edition
Backslide
Back′slide′
(băk′slīd′; 277)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp.
Backslid
; p. p.
Backslidden
, Backslid
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Backsliding
.] [
Back
, adv. + slide
.] To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
Webster 1828 Edition
Backslide
BACKSLI'DE
,Verb.
I.