backslider
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The new paper also tested whether revealing more information about each potential backslider changed the accuracy of predictions.
From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2020
Attacked as a backslider was Chen Yi, the nation's durable Vice Premier and Foreign Minister.
From Time Magazine Archive
In matters of economic organization, however, even Lenin was a backslider of sorts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-one boys have been "honorably discharged" without a single backslider so far.
From Time Magazine Archive
Exaggeration prevented the backslider from applying the description to himself; and as the way to reformation was neither intelligibly nor mildly pointed out, he was rather irritated than corrected.
From The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) by Knowles, John
