backslide
verb (used without object)
to relapse into bad habits, sinful behavior, or undesirable activities.
had backslidden
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past perfectof backslide.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He had backslidden, slackened in the use of the means of grace, run after the things of this world.
From Tales of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
If we did, everybody reckoned that they had backslidden.
From The First Soprano by Mary Hitchcock
And the other was a 'little' New Yorker, even a renegade of the North, one who had backslidden from the ways of his fathers, and that right ill.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
She had a horrid suspicion that her lover had backslidden, that he meant to return to his hermit life on the Island, and was here now to jilt her.
From When the Cock Crows by Waldron Baily
Stinging resolutions from the back counties were wired to members who had backslidden.
From The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine
