rape

³rape

noun

Definition of RAPE

1

: an act or instance of robbing or despoiling or carrying away a person by force

2

: unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against the will usually of a female or with a person who is beneath a certain age or incapable of valid consent — compare sexual assault, statutory rape

3

: an outrageous violation

First Known Use of RAPE

14th century

Other Legal Terms

actionable, alienable, carceral, chattel, complicity, decedent, larceny, malfeasance, modus operandi