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backsliding

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Backsliding (noun) means an instance of falling back into bad or sinful behaviour.

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An instance of falling back into bad or sinful behaviour.

"We have had many stumblings and many backslidings." — Walter Raleigh, England and the War (1918)

"All their struggles, disappointments, failures, backslidings, which made them unhappy here, because they could not perfectly do the will of God, are past and over for ever." — Charles Kingsley, Out of the Deep (1906)

"That is why any backsliding – disappearing to the toilet at last orders; ordering crazily expensive drinks on other people’s rounds; abruptly leaving after two pints – is sacrilege." — Tony Naylor, The new rules of pub etiquette: don't flirt with bar staff or steal the glasses (2018)

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