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Backslides vs Backslider - What's the difference?

backslides | backslider |

As a verb backslides

is (backslide).

As a noun backslider is

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

backslides

English

Verb

(head)
  • (backslide)

    • backslide

    English

    Verb

    English irregular verbs
  • To regress; to slip backwards or revert to a previous, worse state.
  • :He felt better for a little while, before his condition started to backslide .
  • To shirk responsibility; to renege on one's obligations or commitments.
  • :Rich countries are backsliding on their commitment to agree to new WTO measures to help people in poor countries gain access to affordable medicines. — Oxfam press release, 24 June 2002

    • backslider

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.
  • * 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 .’
    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.