recidivist

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=cid=i=vist

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, whore

ROGET 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.