Usually means: Regressing after making initial progress.
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  1. backsliding: Merriam-Webster
  2. backsliding: Collins English Dictionary
  3. backsliding: Vocabulary.com
  4. Backsliding, backsliding: Wordnik
  5. backsliding: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. backsliding: Wiktionary
  7. Backsliding, backsliding: Dictionary.com
  8. backsliding: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Backsliding (film), Backsliding: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Backsliding: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. backsliding: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. backsliding: Rhymezone
  13. Backsliding: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. backsliding: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. backsliding: FreeDictionary.org
  16. backsliding: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. backsliding: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. backsliding: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. backsliding: Encyclopedia

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adjective:  sliding back
noun:  An occasion on which one backslides, especially in a moral sense.

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