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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-956/
- Published: 2022-09-11T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-07-10T18:47:55.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

The word for today is…

recidivism (noun):

: a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior, especially a relapse into criminal behavior

Source :[ Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recidivism?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : The re- in recidivism is the same re- in relapse and return, and like those words recidivism is about going back: it’s a tendency to relapse, especially into criminal behavior. Recidivism is a 19th century French borrowing that’s ultimately from a Latin word meaning “to relapse into sin or crime.” In borrowing recidivism, English was itself engaging in a kind of recidivism: the same Latin source of recidivism had been nabbed in the 16th century to form the much less common recidivate, meaning “to fall into or exhibit recidivism.”

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