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Pass into a specified state or condition
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lapsing
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of lapse English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a failure to maintain a higher state [syn: backsliding , lapse , relapse , relapsing , reversion , reverting ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lapse \Lapse\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lapsed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Lapsing .] To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses. A tendency to lapse into the barbarity ...
Usage examples of lapsing.
In default of these, minds were lapsing towards crude and base self-seeking and entirely individualistic aims.
In the chaos of popular superstitions, those Mysteries alone kept man from lapsing into absolute brutishness.
I recognise meanwhile, throughout the long earlier reach of the book, not only no deformities but, I think, a positively close and felicitous application of method, the preserved consistencies of which, often illusive, but never really lapsing, it would be of a certain diversion, and might be of some profit, to follow.
Intellectual-Principle: this demands only that the Soul dwell alone enshrined within that place of its choice, never lapsing towards the lower.