recidivation

From Middle English recidivacion, from Latin recidīvātiō.^[1] By surface analysis, recidivate +‎ -ion or recidive +‎ -ation.

recidivation (countable and uncountable, plural recidivations)

1. Relapse of a disease or a symptom.
2. Synonym of recidivism.
   • 1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiasticvs 34, marginal note, page 423:

     Recidiuation into ſinne maketh the former repentãce fruſtrate.

   • 1940, Walter C[ade] Reckless, “Relapse and the Results of Treatment”, in Criminal Behavior (McGraw-Hill Publications in Sociology), New York, N.Y.; London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., →OCLC, page 369:

     Investigation of recidivation during the postparole period revealed the fact that 23.6 per cent of the cases were found to be nondelinquent (meaning thereby, cases “who abandoned their delinquencies immediately on discharge from the reformatory or before the end of the end parole”); […]

   • 2007, Madeleine Youmans, “Specific Uses of Negative Politeness: The Middle-Class Anglo ‘Advice Culture’”, in Chicano-Anglo Conversations: Truth, Honesty, and Politeness (ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series), New York, N.Y.; Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, published 2013, →ISBN, “Negative Politeness as Linguistic Power” section:

     The social conditions of these inmates would generally not have been examined in attempts to explain their high rate of incarceration and recidivation; rather, this kind of rationalization permitted the conclusion that the inmates, as individuals, had chosen to commit crimes and that their situations were entirely their own responsibility.