backslide
verb (used without object)
to relapse into bad habits, sinful behavior, or undesirable activities.
backslidden
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past participleof backslide.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
Example Sentences
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Adolf Hitler is an extremely backslidden Roman Catholic, but no fool.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some sad, Trilby-faced lady who has been "awakened" from a silent, cold, backslidden state by his sermons goes to see him in his church study.
From A Circuit Rider's Wife by Corra Harris
She did not acknowledge that she had backslidden.
From The Higher Court by Mary Stewart Daggett
Her father, at one time saved and earnest about the souls of others, had grown cold and backslidden, and now never even went near a Meeting.
From Catherine Booth — a Sketch by Colonel Mildred Duff
I had become lukewarm and in a backslidden state, but I was still convinced that it was my duty to join the Methodist church.
From My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
