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Relapse
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v.) A sliding or falling back, especially into a former bad state, either of body or morals; backsliding; the state of having fallen back.
(2):
(v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide.
(3):
(v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back.
(4):
(v. i.) To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; - generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; - sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed.
(5):
(v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Relapse'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/r/relapse.html. 1828.
