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backsliding: a failure to maintain a higher state

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irreverence collapse: a disrespectful act; an irreverent mental attitude

evil nature collapse

amorality collapse: the quality of being amoral

immorality collapse: the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct; "the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction"

unsaintly collapse

atheism collapse: a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods; the doctrine or belief that there is no God

unvirtuous collapse

ungodliness collapse: impiety by virtue of not being a godly person

irreverent collapse: showing lack of due respect or veneration; "irreverent scholars mocking sacred things"; "noisy irreverent tourists"

atheistic collapse: rejecting any belief in gods

undutiful collapse

disloyalty collapse: the quality of being disloyal

throwback collapse

irreligious collapse: hostile or indifferent to religion

blasphemous collapse: characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words"; grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on"

retroaction collapse

reinstatement collapse: the act of restoring someone to a previous position; "we insisted on the reinstatement of the colonel"; the condition of being reinstated; "her reinstatement to her former office followed quickly"

secession collapse: formal separation from an alliance or federation; the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War; an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s

retroflexion collapse

fall from grace collapse: revert back to bad behavior after a period of good behavior; "The children fell from grace when they asked for several helpings of dessert"

sacrilegious collapse

treason collapse: a crime that undermines the offender's government; disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior

impious collapse: lacking piety or reverence for a god; lacking piety and reverence for a god; lacking due respect or dutifulness; "impious toward one's parents"; "an undutiful son"

desertion collapse: withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless"

rehabilitation collapse: the restoration of someone to a useful place in society; the treatment of physical disabilities by massage and electrotherapy and exercises; vindication of a person's character and the re-establishment of that person's reputation

unchastity collapse

unrighteous collapse: not righteous; "an unrighteous man"; "an unrighteous law"

apostate collapse: not faithful to religion or party or cause

rollback collapse: reducing prices back to some earlier level; the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw

renegade collapse: someone who rebels and becomes an outlaw

betrayal collapse: the quality of aiding an enemy

disenchantment collapse: freeing from false belief or illusions

sternway collapse

reentry collapse: the act of entering again

wrongdoing collapse: activity that transgresses moral or civil law; "he denied any wrongdoing"

regressive collapse: opposing progress; returning to a former less advanced state; (of taxes) adjusted so that the rate decreases as the amount of income increases

lapsed collapse: no longer active or practicing; "a lapsed Catholic"

unchaste collapse: not chaste; "unchaste conduct"

reclamation collapse: the recovery of useful substances from waste products; rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course; "the reclamation of delinquent children"; the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation

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