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Dissenter vs Backslider - What's the difference?

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Dissenter is a related term of backslider.


As nouns the difference between dissenter and backslider

is that dissenter is someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church while backslider is a recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.

dissenter

English

Noun

(wikipedia dissenter) (en noun)
  • someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church

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    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.