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10 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)
noun someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior
originFrom French récidiviste, from Latin recidīvus (“returning, recurring”). Compare recidivous, -ist. By surface analysis, recidive + -ist.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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- verdicts 14
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- cervids 13
- scrived 13
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- sideritic 12
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- cervid 12
- viscid 12