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🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

आदि अपराधी

Pronunciation / Transliteration: aadi apradhi

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Recidivist/rɪˈsɪd.ə.vɪst/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #14500 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"न्यायाधीश ने आदतन अपराधी को कड़ी सजा सुनाई।"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A convicted criminal who relapses, relapsing repeatedly into crime or antisocial behavior.

    "The prison program aims to provide vocational training to reduce the rate of recidivists returning to the facility."
  2. 2

    A person who relapses into a undesirable habit, behavior, or lifestyle after a period of reform.

    "As a dietary recidivist, he found himself eating junk food just weeks after starting his strict health regimen."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'recidivus' meaning falling back or relapsing, from 'recidere' (re- + cadere, to fall). The term entered legal and criminological discourse in the late 19th century to denote a convicted criminal who relapses into crime.

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