backsliding

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of backslide

adj

1. sliding back

noun

1. An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.

   “democratic backsliding”

   “We have had many stumblings and many backslidings.”

   “If their actions are bad, look back and inquire into the cause of their backslidings.”

   “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.”

   “That is why any backsliding – disappearing to the toilet at last orders; ordering crazily expensive drinks on other people’s rounds; abruptly leaving after two pints – is sacrilege.”