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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 re·cid·i·vist /-vɪst/
 慣犯

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 re·cid·i·vist /-vəst/ 名詞
 復發者,累犯者

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Re·cid·i·vist n. One who is recidivous or is characterized by recidivism; an incorrigible criminal. -- Re*cid*i*vis*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.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 recidivist
      n 1: someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior
           (especially for the same criminal behavior) [syn: repeater,
            habitual criminal]
      2: someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of
         behavior [syn: backslider, reversionist]