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
Indeed, from a frigate's crew might he culled out men of all callings and vocations, from a backslidden parson to a broken-down comedian.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
One day about the middle of the meeting this young man came to the altar, and when asked what was the trouble he said that he had backslidden.
From Heart Talks by Charles Wesley Naylor
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
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
