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Meanings of backslider in английском

каталонский
reincident

Someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior.

reincident
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Examples for "recidivist"
Examples for "recidivist"
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She is a recidivist offender against decency, honesty, progressive thought and morality.
News.com.au
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Why, oh why, are so many recidivist criminals given suspended sentences?
The Irish Times
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The country's worst recidivist drunk driver has appears in court again.
Radio NZ
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Mr Cullen said it was hard to stop recidivist offenders.
Radio NZ
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Photo: Photosport A bully and recidivist offender, Warner has appalled crowds the world over.
Radio NZ
Usage of backslider in английском
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If thou yet, notwithstanding what hath been said, dost remain a backslider:
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
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And, having been a backslider, he is cursed with a half-frenzied humor.
Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1
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Taylor is another backslider in the exercise line and is not looking well.
Scott's Last Expedition, Volume I / Being the journals of Captai...
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You are then a backslider from the God whom you covenanted to serve.
Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians
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L. M. The backslider restored; or, Repentance and faith in the blood of Christ.
The Psalms of David / Imitated in the Language of the New Testam...
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The former shows us the backslider in heart as filled 'with his own ways.'
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
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One backslider returned to the fold is a greater victory than a thousand heathen.
The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke
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He set his teeth together and cursed himself for a fool and a backslider.
In the Wilderness
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I'd rather be what I am than be a backslider.
A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
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It doth not say, And any him but a backslider, any him but him.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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There are two things remarkable in the returning of a backslider to God by Christ.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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They impute wrong motives, base motives, to the backslider.
Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography
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Here is Solomon, that great backslider; and Manasseh, that man of blood and a witch.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
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Your correspondent encountered six white-chokered gentlemen on their way to interview the great nautical backslider.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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He cannot mean the backslider, for Bunyan was such.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
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He had called him a coward and a backslider.
The Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River Country
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каталонский
reincident
Backslider through the time
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