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relapser|rɪˈlæpsə(r)| [f. as prec. + -er1.] One who relapses, esp. into error or sin.
c1625Bp. Hall St. Paul's Combat i. Wks. 1837 V. 303 Those speculative relapsers that have..abandoned a knowne and received truth. 1636Featly Clavis Myst. xl. 610 Back⁓sliders and relapsers as ye are. 1685Evelyn Diary 3 Nov., Forcing people to the Masse, and then executing them as relapsers. 1745Wesley Wks. (1872) VIII. 224 The relapsers were often so hardened in sin, that no impression could be made upon them. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 182/1 The relapsers, and those who refused to recant, were expelled from the church. |