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Definition of Recidivist
1. Noun. Someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior).
Generic synonyms: Criminal, Crook, Felon, Malefactor, Outlaw
Derivative terms: Recidivism, Repeat
2. Noun. Someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior.
Generic synonyms: Offender, Wrongdoer
Derivative terms: Backslide, Recidivism
Definition of Recidivist
1. n. One who is recidivous or is characterized by recidivism; an incorrigible criminal.
Definition of Recidivist
1. Noun. One who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits; a repeat offender. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Recidivist
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Recidivist
1. A person who tends toward recidivation. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Recidivist
Literary usage of Recidivist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Individualization of Punishment by Raymond Saleilles (1911)
"Practical Situations and Reforms: the Making of the recidivist Although on the
positive side the Italian school appears primarily as the consequence of a ..."
2. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"... Feeble-minded recidivist. Honorable discharge from the army. Case 51.
Howard Driscoll by psychological tests showed a mental age a little over ten years ..."
3. Report of the Delegates of the United States (1896)
"Should a malefactor be regarded as a recidivist until he has renewed the same
... The great plague of penologists as well as of society is the recidivist, ..."
4. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1904)
"Under the German system he is regarded as a recidivist only when he repeats ...
It is the last, whether he be a general recidivist, committing a variety of ..."
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