backslidern.
One who backslides or falls away from an adopted course, esp. of religious faith or practice; an apostate, renegade.
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1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. i. 40 A traitor and backslider to him.
1774 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. III. 125 A backslider..is..in a worse condition than one who had never known the right way.
1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle viii. 141 The backsliders are returning to their first love.
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