?1585 W. C. Aduentures Ladie Egeria sig. C3 The presumption of my vnequals, which thorow vnruly raping, bethinke how to cut of the sweet verdure, and tender greennesse of my young yeares.

1637 J. Day New Spring Divine Poetrie 7 The harmelesse Wolfe now grazeth with the Sheepe, Here was no raping, but all beasts did lye as link'd in one.

a1658 J. Durham Pract. Expos. X. Commandements (1675) viii. 398 Such raping, robbing, or spoyling, will chiefly hurt and indammage, not the whole body or generality of the Enemies, or of the King, or such as are of themselves guilty; but the Innocent.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. vii. 135/2 Some will term a Bear Feeding. Though all call their Food, a Prey, and their feeding Raping.

1708 J. Dunton Hazard Death-bed-repentance (new ed.) 56 I shou'd proceed to describe those unnatural vices of Raping, Sod—y, B—ry, which some Men of Quality..have been guilty of.

1868 Coshocton (Ohio) Herald 22 Sept. 1/4 The raping of little children..the burning of dwellings, the violation of women and the assassination of disloyal men, are hourly occurrences in the dominions of this most execrable scoundrel and tyrant.

1916 R. Herrick World Decision ii. iii. 158 It is not the raping of women, not the staff officers' drunken orgies in châteaux... All these are distressing but not necessarily characteristic.

1937 ‘N. West’ & J. Schrank Gentlemen, the War! (typescript) ii. 6 I got a hot human interest story from a guy who eye-witnessed the raping of a dozen nuns by a blonde beast!

1961 Life 15 Dec. 33 Presently the well-armed members of the Force Publique..erupted in mutiny, rioting, raping and looting.

1993 W. Coleman Amer. Sonnet No. 10 in Hand Dance 199 A yearning yearning to avenge the raping of the womb from which we spring.

2004 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 20 Oct. 12 a Environmental damage and the raping of public lands by greedy developers have increased.

1596 P. Barrough Method of Phisick (ed. 3) vi. x. 369 The last proofe of this wood is, to boile the rapings thereof.

1730 D. Turner tr. U. Hutten De Morbo Gallico vii. 17 Without more ado they steep the Shavings or Rapings.

1566 T. Nuce tr. Octavia ii. i. sig. D.iii^v The great desyre of grieflie war is sprong: And raping thurst of gold, it is not yong.

a1690 G. Fox Jrnl. (1694) 348 Bring down in the Land of all Debauchery, and Vice,..and this Raping Spirit, which causeth and leadeth People to have no Esteem of Thee, O God!

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xv. 137 Lions, Beares, Wolues, and other Beasts of rauening kinde, when they are borne in Armes feeding, you must terme them in Blazon, Raping, and tell whereon.

1637 J. Day New Spring Divine Poetrie 21 But man..Is now more greedy then the raping foule.

1724 A. Crossly Signification Most Things in Heraldry 29 Greedy, ravenous, presaging, devouring, slow-wing'd, gluttonous, ill-boding, predictious, ominous, raping, Carcase-hunting.

1754 A. Boyer Great Theater Honour (ed. 2) i. 113 Raping is said of a Beast of Prey, that is devouring or feeding on any other Charge.

1818 H. Clark Short & Easy Introd. Heraldry (ed. 9) ii. 227 Raping, an old term for ravenous beasts when represented feeding.

1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. iv. 69 O had I Virgils verse, or Tullies Tongue! Or raping numbers like the Thracian's Song.

1613 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. v. 94 The Syrens on a neighbour shore Heard in what raping Noates shee did deplore.

a1716 J. Norton in A. Bradstreet Wks. (1867) 254 Had he great Maro's Muse, or Tully's tongue, or raping numbers like the Thracian Song.

1900 D. H. Moore in Christian Advocate 13 Dec. 2024/2 The great Christian nations of the world are being represented in China by robbing, raping, looting soldiery.

1967 J. B. Keane Lett. of Successful TD (1968) iv. 30 I was a virgin when I married you and it wasn't easy with the country full of half-cracked soldiers and raping black-and-tans.

2007 Edmonton (Alberta) Sun (Nexis) 17 Feb. 10 Not one Albertan wants young offenders thrown in jail for stealing a loaf of bread but we do want murderous, raping violent offenders put away.