Noun

(en noun)

An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense

* {{quote-book, year=1918, author=Walter Raleigh, title=England and the War, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=We have had many stumblings and many backslidings . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1851, author=Harvey Newcomb, title=A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=If their actions are bad, look back and inquire into the cause of their backslidings . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1906, author=Charles Kingsley, title=Out of the Deep, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=All their struggles, disappointments, failures, backslidings , which made them unhappy here, because they could not perfectly do the will of God, are past and over for ever. }}