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Noun: reversionist  ri'vur-zhu-nist or ri'vur-shu-nist
  1. Someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behaviour
    "Despite months of sobriety, he became a reversionist and started drinking again";
    - recidivist, backslider

Derived forms: reversionists

Type of: offender, wrongdoer