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Substantiivit
- In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed.
- Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else.
Verbit
- (transitive) To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.
- (transitive) To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.
Esimerkit
- alluding herein unto the heart of man and the precious bloud of our Saviour, who was typified by the Goat that was slain, and the scape-Goat in the Wilderness
- He is making me a scapegoat.
- The new Secretary of State had been long sick of the perfidy and levity of the First Lord of the Treasury, and began to fear that he might be made a scapegoat to save the old intriguer who, imbecile as he seemed, never wanted dexterity where danger was to be avoided.
- Don't scapegoat me for your mistake.
- People tend to fear and then to scapegoat ... groups which seem to them to be fundamentally different from their own.
- They had been used for centuries to justify or rationalize the behavior of that status and conversely to scapegoat and blame some other category of people.
- And I want to add, as we make these changes, we work together to improve this system, that our intention is not scapegoating and finger-pointing.
- Then either the world or others or the self becomes the target for the human tendency to scapegoat.
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