rape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: rapes
Etymology: From Middle English rapen, rappen (“to abduct; ravish; seduce; rape; seize; snatch; carry off; transport”), probably from Latin rapiō (verb), possibly through or influenced by Anglo-Norman rap, rape (noun) (compare also ravish). But compare Swedish rappa (“to snatch, seize, carry off”), Low German rapen (“to snatch, seize”), Dutch rapen (“to pick up, gather, collect”); the relationship with Germanic forms is not clear. Cognate with Lithuanian reikėti (“to be in need”). Compare also rap (“seize, snatch”). Further, some senses may be from Etymology 3, an Old Norse word.
Senses: examples: text: I fled; but he pursued (though more, it seems,
 Inflamed with lust than rage), and, swifter far,
 Me overtook, his mother, all dismayed,
 And, in embraces forcible and foul
 Engendering with me, of that rape begot
 These yelling monsters […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: Last April the media world exploded in indignation at the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park.
ref: 1990 January 22, ‘Turning Victims into Saints’, Time:
text: Castor and Pollux are one set of twins birthed by Leda after her rape by Zeus in swan form; […]
ref: 2013, William Butler Yeats, The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
text: For quotations using this term, see Citations:rape.
glosses: The act of forcing sex upon another person without their consent or against their will; originally coitus forced by a man on a woman, but now generally any sex act forced by any person upon another person; by extension, any non-consensual sex act forced on or perpetrated by any being.
glosses: An experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary.
Overpowerment; utter defeat.
examples: text: The ear rape of that concert was so bad I can't even listen to their songs at work anymore.
glosses: An experience that is pleasant for one party and unpleasant for the other, particularly when the unwilling partner's suffering is worse than necessary.
An insult to one's senses so severe that one feels that they cannot ever be the same afterwards.
examples: text: the Rape of Nanking
text: Ruin'd orphans of thy rapes complain.
ref: 1638, George Sandys, chapter XXII, in A Paraphrase upon Job:
ref: 1712, Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock:
text: Ellery Queen deals entirely in murders; you are not fobbed off, as you are with Mr. Leslie Charteris's Saint, with pablum about the rape of the dowager's emeralds, or the theft of the blueprint of the newest submarine.
ref: 1959, Dorothy Parker, “Ellery Queen: The New York Murders”, in The Portable Dorothy Parker, New York: Penguin, published 1976, pages 566–8:
text: She worked under the great tapestry with its glowing but subdued tones—huntsmen with lofted horns had been running down a female stag. After the rape, leaving the grooms to bring the trophy home, they galloped away into the soft brumous Italian skyline; […]
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur or The Prince of Darkness: A Novel, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN; republished in The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx, London: Faber and Faber, 1992, →ISBN, page 23:
text: Few of the Teleri were willing to go forth to war, for they remembered the slaying at the Swanhaven, and the rape of their ships.
ref: 1977, JRR Tolkien, The Silmarillion:
glosses: The taking of something by force; seizure, plunder.
examples: text: Sat. Traytor, if Rome haue law, or we haue power,
 Thou and thy Faction shall repent this Rape.
 Bass. Rape call you it my Lord, to cease my owne,
 My true betrothed Loue, and now my wife?
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: The tale of the rape of Lucretia, for example, is hardly tellable - as many Roman writers themselves discovered - without raising the question of where seduction ends and rape begins; the rape of the Sabines puts a similar question mark over the distinction between rape and marriage.
ref: 2000 September 8, Mary Beard, The Guardian:
glosses: The abduction of a woman, especially for sexual purposes.
examples: text: Where now are all my hopes? O, never more. / Shall they revive! nor death her rapes restore.
ref: 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “(please specify the page)”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC:
glosses: That which is snatched away.
glosses: Movement, as in snatching; haste; hurry.
Derived terms: acquaintance rape
ass rape
ass-rape
attempted rape
base rape
butt-rape
corrective rape
cyberrape
date rape
date-rape
divorce rape
ear rape
eyerape
eye-rape
firewood rape
frape
gang rape
gang-rape
gate rape
gray rape
hypnorape
marital rape
mind rape
mouth rape
nonrape
prison rape
quasirape
rape alarm
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rape camp
rape card
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rapedoll
rape face
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rapefugee
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rape test kit
rape tool
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rape tree
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regret rape
retroactive rape
reverse rape
self-rape
spousal rape
statutory rape
war rape