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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 Bennett, Arnold

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 Naylor, Charles Wesley

Stinging resolutions from the back counties were wired to members who had backslidden.

From The Vision Splendid by Raine, William MacLeod

She did not acknowledge that she had backslidden.

From The Higher Court by Daggett, Mary Stewart

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