意味(日本語)

再び邪道、邪宗に返る、病気がぶりかえす(すべり返る)

語源

• lab-, laps- : L.lapsare = to slip(すべる), glide(すべる)

意味(英語)

• (verb-intransitive) To fall or slide back into a former state.
• (verb-intransitive) To regress after partial recovery from illness.
• (verb-intransitive) To slip back into bad ways; backslide.
• (noun) A falling back into a former state, especially after apparent improvement.

例文

• There was no looking at watches, no stifled yawning, no uneasy change of position, no watching the clock; strangers visiting the chapel listened, at first, from real interest, with a feeling that by-and-by they would relapse into their usual listlessness, but before they had time to _relapse_, behold the sermon was done.