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Synonyms for lapsing

Grammar : Verb
Spell : laps
Phonetic Transcription : læps

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Définition of lapsing

Origin :
  • mid-15c., "elapsing of time, expiration;" also "temporary forfeiture of a legal right," from Middle French laps "lapse," from Latin lapsus "a slipping and falling, flight (of time), falling into error," from labi "to slip, glide, fall." Meaning "moral transgression, sin" is c.1500; that of "slip of the memory" is 1520s; that of "a falling away from one's faith" is from 1650s.
  • verb become void; fall back into previous pattern
Example sentences :
  • A prudent person, lapsing into a dilemma, is specially discomfitted.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • "Five dollars," repeated the old lady, lapsing into senseless iteration.
  • Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
  • Was it the voice of turbulent centuries and the lapsing tides of men?
  • Extract from : « Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land » by Henry Van Dyke
  • "The fraulein is to come often," says Freilgrath, lapsing into his native idiom.
  • Extract from : « Floyd Grandon's Honor » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
  • Do you think that I am on the verge of lapsing into complete idiocy?
  • Extract from : « Frank Merriwell's Races » by Burt L. Standish
  • And she sank her head on to him again, and they lay still, lapsing.
  • Extract from : « The Rainbow » by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
  • Hans replied to this sally with great vigor, lapsing into Dutch.
  • Extract from : « The Crossing » by Winston Churchill
  • "Ay, I dinna ken about that," she replied, lapsing into the speech of her girlhood.
  • Extract from : « The Day of Judgment » by Joseph Hocking
  • “Yeah,” he said, lapsing unconsciously into the speech of the mountaineers.
  • Extract from : « Dixie Martin » by Grace May North
  • "All right," said Lemuel, lapsing absently to his own troubled thoughts.
  • Extract from : « The Minister's Charge » by William Dean Howells

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