Crossword clues for backslider
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backslider \Back"slid"er\, n. One who backslides.
Wiktionary
n. A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
WordNet
n. someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior [syn: recidivist, reversionist]
Usage examples of "backslider".
Uplanders were notorious backsliders, always letting their faith falter in favor of the old ways.
Such rudeness was to be expected from Backsliders, un-Trainables who were being crowded off Earth to make room for Climbers like himself, but for a Senior Field Agent to talk this way was too much.
Most citizens of the League are uncouth en-dos like myself, or unTrainable Backsliders from Earth.
It would never do to git down at the heel in these matters, 'cause the poorest timber in the market is yer old backsliders.
The Coopers had great faith in daily doses of religion for keeping the maidservants sweet and the menservants chaste, and upon the whole it worked -- the daily prayers, Sunday processions of the whole household to church, and a decidedly un-Christlike severity toward any backsliders, pregnant housemaids or light-fingered footmen.
One by one the gonophs, thieves, finewirers, whores, illusionists, backsliders and second-storey men awoke and breakfasted.
For we find that you have said or done such and such (naming them), wherefore we have reason, in the opinion of the said learned men, and compelled thereto by your own excesses, to judge you as a backslider according to the canonical decrees.
He marries but the one wife, uses the Protestant Bible, observes Protestant forms of worship, forbids the use of liquor and tobacco, practises adult baptism by immersion, and after every public sin, rechristens the backslider.