Word Meanings - BACKSLIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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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• PROFESSORY
  Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial. Bacon.
• PROFESSORIALISM
  The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
• PROFESSORIAT
  See PROFESSORIATE
• FAITHLESS
  1. Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27. 2. Not believing on God or religion; specifically, not believing in the Christian religion. Shak. 3. Not observant of promises or covenants. 4. Not true
• PROFESSEDLY
  By profession.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• PROFESS
  or nun), L. professus, p. p. of profiteri to profess; pro before, 1. To make open declaration of, as of one's knowledge, belief, action, etc.; to avow or acknowledge; to confess publicly; to own or admit freely. "Hear me profess sincerely." Shak.
• PROFESSOR
  1. One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church. "Professors
• RELIGION
  A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode of life; the religious state; as, to enter religion. Trench. A good man was there of religion. Chaucer. 4. Strictness of fidelity in conforming to any practice, as if it were an enjoined
• PROFESSORSHIP
  The office or position of a professor, or public teacher. Walton.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• RELIGIONISM
  1. The practice of, or devotion to, religion. 2. Affectation or pretense of religion.
• ABANDON
  To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender;
• SLIDE
  To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound. 7. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence. With good hope let he sorrow slide. Chaucer. With a calm carelessness letting everything slide. Sir P. Sidney.
• PROFESSIONALISM
  The following of a profession, sport, etc., as an occupation; - - opposed to Ant: amateurism.
• FAITHED
  Having faith or a faith; honest; sincere. "Make thy words faithed." Shak.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• SLIDEWAY
  A way along which something slides.
• ABANDONER
  One who abandons. Beau. & Fl.
• RELIGIONIZE
  To bring under the influence of religion. Mallock.
• CORRELIGIONIST
  A co-religion
• UNFAITH
  Absence or want of faith; faithlessness; distrust; unbelief. Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers: Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all. Tennyson.
• DISPROFESS
  To renounce the profession or pursuit of. His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess. Spenser.
• UNFAITHFUL
  1. Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject; an unfaithful agent or servant. My feet, through wine, unfaithful to their weight. Pope. His
• NONPROFESSIONAL
  Not belonging to a profession; not done by, or proceeding from, professional men; contrary to professional usage.