Backsliding is valid Scrabble Word

Is backsliding a scrabble word?
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11 letters word
21 points in Scrabble
26 points in WWF

Definitions for BACKSLIDING in dictionary:

VERB:

relapse into bad ways or error

NOUN:

a lapse, a moral transgression
The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty.
a failure to maintain a higher state

ADJECTIVE:

Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to lapse morally or in the practice of religion

Words related to BACKSLIDING

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Words that contain BACKSLIDING

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How to use BACKSLIDING in a sentence

It is a quickening of dead, backsliding, or inattentive souls.
Even in the old people themselves, there is occasionally some backsliding into the depravity of worldly appetite.
The type is two-fold-now of the Messiah, now of the Church, and of the Church in all its relations, persecuted, victorious, backsliding, penitent.
But, 3dly, To make it appear that it is consonant to the practice of the godly to make public confession of national backsliding, we will advance two or three Scripture instances.
I shall not deny that in the second week I did some backsliding.
Ishtar, as Queen of Heaven, was also adored by the backsliding Israelites as a deity of battle and harvest.
And if this lamentable backsliding should take place more or less with a large portion of a congregation, our Church prays and labors for a revival.
Now may I lay aside every weight, and that vanity of mind which doth so easily beset me, and hath been the secret spring of much backsliding both to myself and to my children.
For Oh, my character is ever the same with backsliding Judah and treacherous Israel.
But, O Lord, a look, such as thou gavest to Peter, will melt our hearts and restore our backsliding souls.

Many years of vanity, of idolatry, of backsliding, wandering, and folly have passed over my head since I first took hold of thy covenant.
Many have been the beginnings of days and of months which thou hast afforded after backsliding.
In these backsliding days he set a great example of steadfastness and loyalty to the faith of his youth and his race.
For some time I had been playing a game of hide and seek with a certain backsliding member of my congregation.
At his trial at Cape Coast Castle he said little in his defence, but pleaded that the cause of his backsliding was drunkenness.
Yet apart from this ulterior inconsistency and backsliding into credulity, transcendentalism would hear nothing of causes or grounds.
The backsliding Christian is warned in time by Prudence of the fearful consequences of sin, and hastens to turn his back on Pride and the other sins.

Similar words containing BACKSLID without suffix ing

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