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1. A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.

2. 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘The Judgement of Dungara’, Black and White, Folio Society 2004, vol. 1, p. 382:

At night the Red Elephant Tusk boomed and groaned among the hills, and the faithful waked and said: ‘The God of Things as They Are matures revenge against the backsliders.’

3. 2009, (w), "Confronting Vulnerability through Resilient Diplomacy: Antigua and the WTO Internet Gambling Dispute with the United States" in Andrew F. Cooper and Timothy M. Shaw (eds.), The Diplomacies of Small States: Between Vulnerability and Resilience, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 216,

The choice of unilateralism by the US also exposed it to charges that it is a backslider on its WTO commitments.

4. 2012, Brian Bethune, "Two against one: About coupledom and the stigma of being single" in (w), 20 June, 2012, http://www.macleans.ca/general/the-stigma-of-being-single-the-lack-of-role-models-and-how-coupledom-shrinks-the-world/

You say that you “lapse into coupledom” on occasion. Do you get grief from fellow militant singles for being a backslider?

She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house.

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