unrape
English
Etymology
Verb
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- (transitive) Hypothetically, to undo the act of rape; to cause (a person) not to have been raped.
- 2008, William Marten, A Killer of Serial Women: A True Story (page 74)
- I could not unoppress all those women; I could not resurrect all the murdered witches; I could not unrape all the little girls.
- 2011, Nic Samojluk, From Pro-life to Pro-choice:
- In fact, experience has demonstrated that “abortion does not unrape a woman,” and it “promises only to compound the trauma of rape with another experience of violence.”
- 2013, Avram Hiller, Ramona Ilea, Leonard Kahn, Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics
- To illustrate with a crude parallel, the idea is the following: that one cannot unmurder the murdered and that one cannot unrape the raped.
- 2008, William Marten, A Killer of Serial Women: A True Story (page 74)