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Definition scapegoat
Etymology
From scape + goat; coined by Tyndale, interpreting Hebrew ???????? (“azazél”) (Leviticus 16:8, 10, 26), from an interpretation as coming from ??? (ez, “goat”) and ???? (ozél, “escapes”). First attested 1530.
Noun
scapegoat (plural scapegoats)
- 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.
Verb
scapegoat (third-person singular simple present scapegoats, present participle scapegoating, simple past and past participle scapegoated)
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