Scapegoat

['skeɪpgəʊt] or ['skepɡot]

Definition

(noun.) someone who is punished for the errors of others.

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Definition

(n.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness.

(n.) Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others.

Typist: Vilma

Definition

n. a goat on which once a year the Jewish high-priest laid symbolically the sins of the people and which was then allowed to escape into the wilderness (Levit. xvi.): one who is made to bear the misdeeds of another.

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