backslider

backslider englannista suomeksi

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0. Substantiivi

backslider englanniksi

1. A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate.

2. {{quote-book|en|year=1888|author=Rudyard Kipling|chapter=The Judgement of Dungara|title=Black and White|publisher=Folio Society|year_published=2004|volume=1|page=382

3. (quote-book)|chapter=Confronting Vulnerability through Resilient Diplomacy: Antigua and the WTO Internet Gambling Dispute with the United States|editors=Andrew F. Cooper; Timothy M. Shaw|title=The Diplomacies of Small States: Between Vulnerability and Resilience|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|page=216

4. {{quote-journal|en|author=Brian Bethune|title=Two against one: About coupledom and the stigma of being single|journal=Maclean's|date=20 June 2012|titleurl=http://www.macleans.ca/general/the-stigma-of-being-single-the-lack-of-role-models-and-how-coupledom-shrinks-the-world/

''She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house.''