relapser
(rɪˈlæpsə(r))
[f. as prec. + -er1.]
One who relapses, esp. into error or sin.
| c 1625 Bp. Hall St. Paul's Combat i. Wks. 1837 V. 303 Those speculative relapsers that have..abandoned a knowne and received truth. 1636 Featly Clavis Myst. xl. 610 Back⁓sliders and relapsers as ye are. 1685 Evelyn Diary 3 Nov., Forcing people to the Masse, and then executing them as relapsers. 1745 Wesley Wks. (1872) VIII. 224 The relapsers were often so hardened in sin, that no impression could be made upon them. 1882–3 Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 182/1 The relapsers, and those who refused to recant, were expelled from the church. |