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Noun Concept

Categories: Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2017, Criminology, Articles with short description, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Psychopathy

recidivist backslider reversionist

Someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior WordNet 3.0

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Someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

A person who repeats an undesirable behavior after having been punished and/or treated for it. OmegaWiki

A recidivist; one who backslides, especially in a religious sense; an apostate. Wiktionary

One who clings to previous patterns of behavior or thought, rejecting social or cultural change. Wiktionary

She married him thinking to change his ways, and for a while he got religion, but he was ever a backslider; she soon began finding bottles stashed about the house. Wiktionary

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WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

recidivist, backslider, reversionist

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backslider, reversionist

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recidivist

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recidivist