单词 | rapable |
释义 | rapableadj. Of a person (occasionally also of a thing): able to be raped; regarded as suitable for rape; (sometimes also in weakened sense) sexually desirable. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [adjective] > characterized by rape > raped > susceptible of being rapable1963 1963 R. Gover Maniac Responsible 82 He fumbled the cocktail pitcher, caught it, fumbled it, caught it again and wished it were rape-able. 1968 R. Whitman Marriage Wig 51 I let my jewel of a rapeable daughter out of the door and watch him sideways out of the window. 1976 K. Bonfiglioli Something Nasty in Woodshed vii. 75 I've no intention of distributing cantrips and costly crucifixes to every rapable woman in the Parish. 1977 J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe xi. 155 The virgin bloom remained, Duncan. You were very rapable still. 1999 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Apr. 329 Says she was initially passed over for The Accused because she didn't look ‘rape-able’ enough. 2005 C. Burns Sexual Violence & Law in Japan vi. 112 English-language feminist research..has found that legal systems consistently divide women into categories of those who are rapable and those who are not. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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