Word Meanings - BACKSLIDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.

Related words: (words related to BACKSLIDING)

• FALLALS; FAL-LALS
  Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray.
• FALLER
  A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls.
• SLIPPY
  Slippery.
• BACKSLIDING
  Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.
• FALLOW
  Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.
• SLIPPERILY
  In a slippery manner.
• SINNET
  See
• FALLOPIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.
• ERRORFUL
  Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
• FALLENCY
  An exception. Jer. Taylor.
• SLIPPER
  A piece, usually a plate, applied to a sliding piece, to receive wear and afford a means of adjustment; -- also called shoe, and gib. Slipper animalcule , a ciliated infusorian of the genus Paramecium. -- Slipper flower. Slipperwort. -- Slipper
• FALLEN
  Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.
• FALLFISH
  A fresh-water fish of the United States ; - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.
• SAITH
  3d pers. sing. pres. of Say.
• FALLING
  from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. -- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness
• FALLIBLY
  In a fallible manner.
• FALLAX
  Cavillation; a caviling. Cranmer.
• SLIPPINESS
  Slipperiness. "The slippiness of the way." Sir W. Scott.
• FALLOWNESS
  A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. Bartlett.
• SAITHE
  The pollock, or coalfish; -- called also sillock.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• UNFALLIBLE
  Infallible. Shak.
• MISFALL
  To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. Chaucer.
• TERRORLESS
  Free from terror. Poe.
• BEFALL
  To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak.
• INFALLIBLY
  In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly. Blair.
• RAINFALL
  A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region. Supplied by the rainfall of the outer ranges of Sinchul and Singaleleh. Hooker.
• JAW-FALLEN
  Dejected; chopfallen.
• CRESTFALLEN
  1. With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed. Let it make thee crestfullen; Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shak. 2. Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse.
• TERRORIZE
  To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.
• PITFALLING
  Entrapping; insnaring. "Full of . . . contradiction and pitfalling dispenses." Milton.