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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Law One who commits the crime of rape.
  • noun One who abuses something or treats something improperly.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is guilty of rape.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who commits rape.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse

Etymologies

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rape +‎ -ist

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