Etymology

rapist

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Today it means: One who has committed rape; someone who raped another person. Full definition →

English rape ← Middle English rappen
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The story

  1. Middle Englishrappen
  2. Englishrape
  3. English todayrapist

From rape + -ist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.