recidivist
pronunciation
How to pronounce recidivist in British English:
UK [rɪˈsɪdɪvɪst]
How to pronounce recidivist in American English:
US [rɪˈsɪdɪvɪst]
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- Noun:
- someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)
- someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
Word Origin
- recidivist
- recidivist: [19] A recidivist – a ‘persistent offender’ – is etymologically someone who ‘falls back’. The word was borrowed from French récidiviste, a descendant of medieval Latin recidīvāre. This in turn was based on the noun recidīvus ‘falling back’, a derivative of Latin recidere ‘fall back’, which was a compound verb formed from the prefix re- ‘back, again’ and cadere ‘fall’ (source of English cadence, case, decadent, etc).=> cadaver, cadence, case, decadent
- recidivist (n.)
- "relapsed criminal," 1863, from French récidiviste, from récidiver "to fall back, relapse," from Medieval Latin recidivare "to relapse into sin," from Latin recidivus "falling back," from recidere "fall back," from re- "back, again" (see re-) + comb. form of cadere "to fall" (see case (n.)). Recidivation in the spiritual sense is attested from early 15c., was very common 17c.
Example
- 1. Part three : legislative reconsider on special recidivist system .
- 2. Part three is legislative reconsider on special recidivist system .
- 3. Magistrates complain that they see a procession of recidivist minor offenders .
- 4. The shortcomings in the existing recidivist system and their improvement .
- 5. On the problems existed in the system of special recidivist in our country and its improvement .