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. }}

Noun

(en noun)

An action of regressing, a return to a previous state.

* 1899: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class

Few of these groups or communities that are classed as "savage" show no traces of regression from a more advanced cultural stage.

(psychotherapy) A psychotherapeutic method whereby healing is facilitated by inducing the patient to act out behaviour typical of an earlier developmental stage.

(statistics) An analytic method to measure the association of one or more independent variables with a dependent variable.

(statistics) An equation using specified and associated data for two or more variables such that one variable can be estimated from the remaining variable(s).

(programming) The reappearance of a bug in a piece of software that had previously been fixed.