Definition of "backsliders" [backsliders]

• Plural form of backslider. (noun)

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• "His older sister and her boyfriend left, and were branded "backsliders" - but became, in his eyes, "my heroes"."
• "A stray volume of Darwin, a nagging wife, and a pretty Fitu-Ivan widow had driven him into the ranks of the backsliders."
• "As a reward, he had been sent to the paradise of Fitu-Iva, where all were or had been good converts, to gather in the backsliders."