backslider

backslider
noun /ˈbakslaɪdə,ˈbækslaɪdəɻ/
A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.

At night the Red Elephant Tusk boomed and groaned among the hills, and the faithful waked and said: ‘The God of Things as They Are matures revenge against the backsliders.’


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  • Backslider — Back slid er, n. One who backslides. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • backslider — *renegade, apostate, recreant, turncoat …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • backslider — noun I ll have no backslider like you in my family Syn: recidivist, regressor; defector, deserter, turncoat, apostate, fallen angel …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • backslider — backslide ► VERB (past backslid; past part. backslid or backslidden) ▪ relapse into bad ways. DERIVATIVES backslider noun backsliding noun …   English terms dictionary

  • backslider — noun see backslide …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • backslider — See backslide. * * * …   Universalium

  • backslider — n. person who returns to evil or immoral ways …   English contemporary dictionary

  • backslider — n. Apostate, deserter, renegade …   New dictionary of synonyms

  • backslider — n relapser, recidivist, regressor; sinner, fallen angel, lost soul, lost sheep, apostate, heretic …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • backslider — See: backsliding …   English dictionary

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