recidivist

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who falls back into prior habits, especially criminal habits.
    — This specimen was of English parentage, was a professional burglar, a confirmed recidivist, and—since he habitually carried firearms—a potential homicide.
形容词 adj.
  1. Tending to fall back into prior habits, especially criminal habits.
    — To return to Macbeth, I should like to note another psychological intuition of [William] Shakespeare’s, which is that women commit fewer crimes than men; but when they commit them they are more cruel and more obstinately recidivist than men. Lady Macbeth, for example, is more inhumanly ferocious than her husband.

词形变化

recidivists plural more recidivist comparative most recidivist superlative

词源

词源 1
From French récidiviste, from Latin recidīvus (“returning, recurring”). Compare recidivous, -ist. By surface analysis, recidive + -ist.
词源 2
From French récidiviste, from Latin recidīvus (“returning, recurring”). Compare recidivous, -ist. By surface analysis, recidive + -ist.
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