rapistn.
/ˈreɪpɪst/, U.S. /ˈreɪpᵻst/ Originally U.S.
A person who commits rape (rape n.3 2a); one guilty of rape. Also figurative.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > [noun] > defilement of chastity or woman > forcible > one who rapes
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1869 Dallas Weekly Herald 27 Feb. 2 Our Texas Convention had a whole raft of such lumber, including Bryant, the rapist.
1883 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 5 May 6/4 (heading) The stalwart resistance a married woman offered a would-be ‘nigger’ rapist.
1901 Nation (N.Y.) 18 Apr. 313/1 A bill having been passed by the State legislators, March 20, 1901 ‘providing for the public execution of convicted rapists’.
1938 I. Kuhn Assigned to Adventure vi. 54 Men had lived with death so long that they seized upon life with a rapist's lust.
1949 Time 19 Dec. 23/3 We follow a system which amounts to rape of the land. We are no careful husbandmen—not husbands but rapists.
1975 Daily Mirror 14 Apr. 5/2 Hooded rapist claims victim no 6... The rapist who is terrorising a city's bed~sitter girls struck again yesterday.
2007 Toronto Star (Nexis) 21 Aug. l8 It's tough to judge love songs and social commentary from a convicted rapist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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