单词 | backslide |
释义 | ▪ I. backslide, v.|bækslaɪd| [f. back adv. + slide v. (In this and its derivatives, the stress varies between ˈ ˌand ˌ ˈ)] To slide back, in a figurative sense; to fall away from attained excellence, esp. of religious faith and practice; to relapse.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osorius 503 The onely righteousnesse of Fayth, from whence they were back⁓slyden. 1641Milton Ch. Discip. i. Wks. (1851) 2 To back⁓slide..into the Jewish beggery of old cast rudiments. 1835Marryat Jac. Faithf. xxi, Did not I..backslide into intemperance and folly? ▪ II. † ˈbackˌslide, n. [f. prec. vb.] Backsliding, apostatizing, falling away.
1586Warner Alb. Eng. iii. xix. (1597) 88 The back-slide of our helplesse friends, the down-fall of our state. |

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