Definition of "backslidden" [backslidden]

• Past participle of backslide (verb)

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• "I can still see the tears streaming down my father’s cheeks when I convinced him that his so-called backslidden parents, both of them Pentecostal preachers, were not being eternally tortured in the fires of hell."
• "He saw his duty plainly, -- if Ellen had "backslidden," he must give her another trial."
• "I had now to this extent "backslidden" from this point in the slave's religious creed; and I soon had occasion to make my fallen state known to my Sunday-pious brother, Covey."