Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Backslid"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Backslide \Back`slide"\, v. i. [imp. {Backslid}; p. p.
{Backslidden}, {Backslid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Backsliding}.]
[Back, adv. + slide.]
To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the
faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
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