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Anthony Burgess' novel _A Clockwork Orange_ features a gang of hooligans led by one named Alex, coincidentally, and they like to go around assaulting people, an act which they describe as "giving them a bit of the old ultraviolence." Thus "ultraviolated her" sounds like the character Alex describing a rape.
One thing about the novel that AWAD folks might appreciate is the way that the characters' slang is peppered with words borrowed or adapted from Russian.
Stanley Kubrick adapted the novel into a film, with Malcolm McDowell starring as Alex.
There are lots of websites devoted to the work, for example:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/3111/aco.htm
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