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Misbeliever vs Backslider - What's the difference?

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Misbeliever is a related term of backslider.


As nouns the difference between misbeliever and backslider

is that misbeliever is someone who holds an unauthorised belief; a heretic, an unbeliever while backslider is a recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.

misbeliever

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who holds an unauthorised belief; a heretic, an unbeliever.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:We are placed in the countrywhere we feare the menaces wherewith she threatneth all mis-beleevers , or follow her promises.

    • 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.