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recidivist

noun

re·​cid·​i·​vist ri-ˈsi-də-vist How to pronounce recidivist (audio)
: one who relapses
specifically : a habitual criminal
recidivist adjective
recidivistic adjective

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web In 2020 Purdue Pharma pled guilty again in court, this time to three felonies, thus becoming a recidivist offender. Ed Bisch, STAT, 18 July 2022 As a recidivist the penalty likely would be more severe. Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 23 June 2022 Being cast out by society is all that Hans — a recidivist if ever there was one — seems to have known. Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022 In the 1980s, Goodmark said research came out that said arrest was likely to decrease recidivist violence. Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2021 Prosecutors say the images included clear depictions of child pornography and bestiality and show that Nader is a lifelong recidivist. Washington Post, 26 June 2020 While none of them is a BoJack-level recidivist, the friends who’ve helped to prop him up over the years have self-sabotaging patterns of their own. Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2020 Forgiveness for recidivists is found outside show business, too. The Economist, 5 Dec. 2019 The problem for Schiff, a former prosecutor, was that Trump was an unrepentant recidivist, a President who was going to keep abusing his office as long as he was allowed to do so. Robert P. Baird, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019 See More

Word History

Etymology

borrowed from French récidiviste, from récidiver "to reappear (of a disease, tumor, etc.), do over, commit a second criminal offense" (going back to Middle French, borrowed from Medieval Latin recidīvāre "to relapse into sin or crime") + -iste -ist entry 1 — more at recidivate

First Known Use

1867, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of recidivist was in 1867

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