Crossword-Solution: BACKSLIDING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Backsliding | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Backslide |
| Backsliding | a. | Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. |
| Backsliding | n. | The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. |
We have 42 clues for the answer “BACKSLIDING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a failure to maintain a higher state | 1 answer |
| Taking a turn for the worse | 2 answers |
| Relapsing | 2 answers |
| recidivism | 20 answers |
| Reflux | 21 answers |
| erosion | 21 answers |
| slipping back | 22 answers |
| Throwback | 24 answers |
| declivity | 28 answers |
| recurrence | 28 answers |
| tergiversation | 32 answers |
| atavism | 34 answers |
| apostasy | 37 answers |
| Defection | 39 answers |
| falseness | 47 answers |
| MOVING back | 48 answers |
| Recede | 51 answers |
| Reversion | 56 answers |
| desertion | 56 answers |
| Abandonment | 62 answers |
| Failing | 62 answers |
| Lapse | 65 answers |
| relapse | 66 answers |
| Descent | 68 answers |
| regress | 69 answers |
| Recession | 71 answers |
| Return | 72 answers |
| retrogression | 73 answers |
| regression | 73 answers |
| Ebb | 74 answers |
| Degeneration | 74 answers |
| Degradation | 77 answers |
| dissolution | 79 answers |
| Weakness | 80 answers |
| withdrawal | 83 answers |
| Deteriora-tion | 85 answers |
| Weak | 86 answers |
| failure | 86 answers |
| Reversal | 87 answers |
| De-crease? | 90 answers |
| Fall | 100 answers |
| Pitch | 107 answers |
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Sentences with BACKSLIDING (5)
Perkins, with this new condition of the body which made him so restless, his old feelings revived, and he reproached himself bitterly for his backsliding.
When she came home, after supper with the Kennicotts and Guy Pollock, she had a sudden and rather pleasant backsliding from devotion.
The ancient Egyptians were to be driven from their country and dispersed amongst the nations, for a period of forty years, for having been the cause of Israel’s backsliding, and for not having known the Lord,—the modern pseudo-Egyptians are to be dispersed among the nations for seven years, for having denied hospitality to the Virgin and her child.
According to the statement of the subjects themselves, there had been backsliding of some sort in nearly all the cases, 93 per cent.
But oh! ’twas hard for me now, to have the face to pray to this Christ for mercy, against Whom I had thus most vilely sinned: ’twas hard work, I say, to offer to look Him in the face, against Whom I had so vilely sinned; and indeed, I have found it as difficult to come to God by prayer, after backsliding from Him, as to do any other thing.
Quotes with BACKSLIDING (3)
Our civilization will, of course, be "playing God" in an ultimate sense of the phrase: evolving a greater intelligence than currently exists on earth. It behooves us to be a considerate creator, wise to the world and its fragile nature, sensitive to the needs for stable footings that will prevent backsliding -- and keep that house of cards we call civilization from collapsing.
Satan rejoices when old habits overwhelm [us] and we cave in to the pressure of the crowd . . .perhaps temptation lures [us] into sin . . .a backsliding Christian compromises their faith and causes unbelievers to mock the Gospel.
A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2010–2020).