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Sinner vs Backslider - What's the difference?

sinner | backslider |

As nouns the difference between sinner and backslider

is that sinner is a person who has sinned while backslider is a recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.

sinner

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a person who has sinned

    • Hyponyms

    * fasiq (one who has sinned by violating Islamic law)

    Anagrams

    * ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Verb

    (roa-jer-verb)
  • to sign

    • 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.