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Scapegoat
scapegoat
(scapegoats, scapegoating, scapegoated) 1. If you say that someone is made a scapegoat for something bad that has happened, you mean that people blame them and may punish them for it although it may not be their fault. I don’t deserve to be made the scapegoat for a couple of bad results. N-COUNT: oft N for n 2. To scapegoat someone means to blame them publicly for something bad that has happened, even though it was not their fault. Ethnic minorities are continually scapegoated for the lack of jobs. VERB: V n
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I. noun Etymology: 1scape; intended as translation of Hebrew ‘azazel (probably name of a demon), as if ‘ez 'ozel goat that departs—Leviticus 16:8(Authorized Version) Date: 1530 1. a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur 2. a. one that bears the blame for others b. one that is the object of irrational hostility II. transitive verb Date: 1943 to make a ~ of • ~ism noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a person bearing the blame for the sins, shortcomings, etc. of others, esp. as an expedient. 2 Bibl. a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16). --v.tr. make a scapegoat of. Derivatives scapegoater n. Etymology: scape (archaic, = escape) + GOAT, = the goat that escapes SCAPEGRACE n. a rascal; a scamp, esp. a young person or child. Etymology: scape (as SCAPEGOAT) + GRACE = one who escapes the grace of God ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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~ n someone who is blamed for something bad that happens, even if it is not their fault (He claimed he had been made a scapegoat for the administration's failures.) - scapegoat v ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1530, "goat sent into the wilderness on the Day of Atonement, symbolic bearer of the sins of the people," coined by Tyndale from scape (M.E. aphetic form of escape) + goat, to translate L. caper emissarius, a mistranslation in Vulgate of Heb. 'azazel (Lev. xvi:8,10,26), which was read as 'ez ozel "goat that departs," but is actually the proper name of a devil or demon in Jewish mythology (sometimes identified with Canaanite deity Aziz). Meaning "one who is blamed or punished for the mistakes or sins of others" first recorded 1824. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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