recidive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Synonym of recidivous (“recurring”).
adj
Synonym of recidivous (“prone to relapse”).
noun
Synonym of recidivation (“relapse”).
noun
Synonym of recidivist (“one who falls back into prior habits”).
Example Sentences
- "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; […]"
- "It was the second case of recidive calculus which I had operated on since my arrival in England; […]"
- "If any suspicion of recidive aldosteronism was present, patients were carefully reexamined by hormonal tests and computed tomography (CT)."
- "[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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ḱh₂d-, recidīvus, recidive, recidīva, resydiven, recidīvō