recidive

Synonym of recidivous (“recurring”).

But the truth is, as I haue oft ſeene, that this forme doth nothing, ſaue onely hide the ſicknes, and appeaſe the dolors for a time, ſo that it is alwayes recidiue, and oſt times by the long and violent vſage heereof, the humors are rendred more drying, maling, and burned, of the which come miſerable ſimptoms, as I haue often ſeene.

[T]he evil humours remaining after a Criſe, are wont to make one recidive or relapſing; […]

Synonym of recidivous (“prone to relapse”).

[H]is maieste had never remembred their precedent offenses nor imputed thesame^([sic]) to their charge, Being a prince most honorable obseruatour of his worde . But seing their cankred recidive hert he could no lesse doo then to suffre them to have his lawes . to thexemple of suche Ingrate and Irremediable obstinate hertes.

He was, then, already a recidive offender when he came here for the first time, and he has been here 4, and not three times, as the press says.

Synonym of recidivation (“relapse”).

Take alwaies heede to the forces of the ſick, & beware of that which is cauſe of all dolors and recidiues: that is, the number of the frictions, by reaſon that ſome giue ouer-few, fearing theſe accidents, and to the contrary, ſome others that gyue ouer-many, in ſuch ſort that I haue heard men vaunt themſelues, to haue rubbed the poore Patient 37. times.

But this was like the palliative cure of a ſore, & a lightning for the preſent of a ſick bodie: wherby it might ſoone after by relapſe fall backe, as it were, into a recidive, and a worſe diſeaſe and more daungerous than the other.

Synonym of recidivist (“one who falls back into prior habits”).

The severity of Jansenism could hardly be a greater guarantee for repentance than the mild discipline of the Church, when it was compatible with the impenitence of [Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal] de Retz, and the feeble penance of such a recidive as Anne de Rohan.

It is the great dominant question of the recidive, the habitual offender, the criminal class. In his lurid romance, “Les Misérables,” Victor Hugo has canonized the innocent recidive, Jean Valjean, who is not the enemy but the victim of law and order.

Synonym of recidivate (“to fall back into prior habits”).

Agayne if he ofte tymes recidiuyng, and fallyng into the ſame diſeaſe agayne, be at the length with muche a doe rid ⁊ healed therof, thẽ doth he the moꝛe hate his diſeaſe, and alſo the moꝛe knowledge the benefite of his healing, and ſhall better knowe how to cure other that are lykewiſe diſeaſed.

‘I’d walk out today if I had the courage.’ / ‘Ah, but then you’re probably a first offender, while Judith and I are recidivists. Am I right?’ / ‘And how!’ Judith laughed. ‘What’s more I’m going on recidiving just as soon as I kick the dust of this place off my heels.’