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recidivist
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun recidivist has 2 senses
- recidivist(n = noun.person) habitual criminal, repeater - someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior); Array is a kind of criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw
- recidivist(n = noun.person) backslider, reversionist - someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior; Array is a kind of offender, wrongdoer
Derived form noun recidivism1
Derived form noun recidivism1
CIDE DICTIONARY
recidivist, n.
One who is recidivous or is characterized by recidivism; an incorrigible criminal. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
"The criminal by passion never becomes a recidivist, it is the social, not the antisocial, instincts that are strong within him, his crime is a solitary event in his life."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
recidivist, n. a person who relapses into crime.
Derivative
recidivism n. recidivistic adj.
Etymology
F r{eacute}cidiviste f. r{eacute}cidiver f. med.L recidivare f. L recidivus f. recidere (as RE-, cadere fall)
THESAURUS
recidivist
Adamic, Sabbath-breaker, apostate, atavistic, atheist, atheistic, backslider, backsliding, bad egg, bad lot, black sheep, blasphemer, blasphemous, bolter, carnal, collaborationist, collaborator, convert, defector, degenerate, deserter, erring, fallen, fallen angel, fallen from grace, fifth columnist, fleshly, frail, impious, impure, infirm, irreligious, irreverent, lapsed, lecher, lost lamb, lost sheep, lost soul, miscreant, mugwump, of easy virtue, peccable, pervert, pimp, postlapsarian, prodigal, prodigal son, profanatory, profane, profligate, proselyte, quisling, reactionary, recessive, recidivistic, recidivous, recreant, regressive, renegade, renegado, renegate, repeater, reprobate, retrograde, retrogressive, retrorse, retroverse, returnable, returnee, reversible, reversional, reversionary, reversioner, reversionist, revertible, revulsionary, runagate, sacrilegious, sacrilegist, scapegrace, schismatic, seceder, secessionist, separatist, sorry lot, strikebreaker, tergiversant, tergiversator, traitor, trollop, turnabout, turncoat, turntail, two-time loser, unangelic, unbeliever, unchaste, unclean, undutiful, ungodly, ungood, unrighteous, unsaintly, unvirtuous, virtueless, wanton, wayward, weak, whoreROGET THESAURUS
recidivist
Tergiversation
N tergiversation, change of mind, change of intention, change of purpose, afterthought, tergiversation, recantation, palinode, palinody, renunciation, abjuration, abjurement, defection, going over, apostasy, retraction, retractation, withdrawal, disavowal, revocation, revokement, reversal, repentance, redintegratio amoris, coquetry, vacillation, backsliding, volte-face, turn coat, turn tippet, rat, apostate, renegade, convert, pervert, proselyte, deserter, backslider, blackleg, crawfish, scab, mugwump, recidivist, time server, time pleaser, timist, Vicar of Bray, trimmer, ambidexter, weathercock, Janus, changeful, irresolute, ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving, coquetting, revocatory, reactionary, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
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