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Backslid

[bak-slahyd] Origin

back·slide

[bak-slahyd] verb, -slid, -slid or -slid·den, -slid·ing, noun
verb (used without object)
1.
to relapse into bad habits, sinful behavior, or undesirable activities.
noun
2.
an act or instance of backsliding: a backslide from his early training.

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Backslid is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

Origin:
1575–85; back2 + slide

back·slid·er, noun
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Word Origin & History

backslide
in the religious sense, 1580s, from back (adj.) + slide.
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