Antonyms for falling away


Grammar : Noun, verb
Spell : fawl
Phonetic Transcription : fɔl


Definition of falling away

Origin :
  • present participle adjective from fall (v.). Falling star is from 1560s; falling out "disagreement" is from 1560s. Falling evil "epilepsy" is from early 13c.
  • As in desertion : noun abandonment
  • As in regress : verb return to earlier way of doing things
  • As in remit : verb stop, postpone
  • As in sag : verb droop
  • As in lose ground : verb suffer loss or disadvantage
  • As in contract : verb condense
  • As in drop off : verb decrease
  • As in ebb : verb subside; decline
Example sentences :
  • He is limited by the absurd and that means He is unlimited; for the absurd is a falling away.
  • Extract from : « Initiation into Philosophy » by Emile Faguet
  • The spores are elliptical, 126., and black, falling away in drops.
  • Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
  • It is suggested that we are falling away from God because of some lack in the Church.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of the Soul » by Lilian Staveley
  • They gave the effect of falling away from some evil contagion.
  • Extract from : « The Winning Clue » by James Hay, Jr.
  • Yet during all these years, the illusions were falling away.
  • Extract from : « Child and Country » by Will Levington Comfort
  • She noticed this, and felt, somehow, that her people were falling away from her.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 » by Various
  • There shall not be, as in the first creation, any falling away.
  • Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Peter » by J. Rawson Lumby
  • The Authorised Version says "a" falling away, but that is wrong.
  • Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles to the Thessalonians » by James Denney
  • His lowliness was falling away, his sense of his own importance was coming back to him.
  • Extract from : « Back Home » by Irvin S. Cobb
  • Not persistent; falling away, as the leaves of a tree in autumn.
  • Extract from : « Michigan Trees » by Charles Herbert Otis

Synonyms for falling away

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