recidivist : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: recidivist	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for recidivist
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
recidivist n someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) Synonym(s): recidivist, repeater, habitual criminal someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior Synonym(s): recidivist, backslider, reversionist
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Recidivist \Recid"ivist\, n. One who is recidivous or is characterized by recidivism; an incorrigible criminal. -- {Recid`ivis"tic}, a. 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. --Havelock Ellis.