"backsliding" meaning in All languages combined

See backsliding on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more backsliding [comparative], most backsliding [superlative]
Rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ Head templates: {{en-adj}} backsliding (comparative more backsliding, superlative most backsliding)
  1. sliding back
    Sense id: en-backsliding-en-adj-jqHoVrAi

Noun [English]

Forms: backslidings [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun}} backsliding (plural backslidings)
  1. An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.
    Sense id: en-backsliding-en-noun-Fajs5JCc Categories (other): English terms with collocations, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 88 6 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 7 83 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 89 5

Verb [English]

Rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} backsliding
  1. present participle and gerund of backslide Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: backslide
    Sense id: en-backsliding-en-verb-PX88qy3E

Inflected forms

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    },
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        "superlative"
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          "text": "democratic backsliding",
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          "ref": "2018 June 6, Tony Naylor, “The new rules of pub etiquette: don't flirt with bar staff or steal the glasses”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
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        "An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense."
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