| 释义 |
victimage, n.|ˈvɪktɪmɪdʒ|
[f. victim n. + -age. Cf. F. victimage, victimer v.]
The condition of being a victim; also, the practice of seeking out a victim, esp. a symbolic one, in order to expiate the guilt of some social group.
1954K. Burke Permanence & Change (ed. 2) 284 A principle of absolute ‘guilt’, matched by a principle that is designed for the corresponding absolute cancellation of such guilt. And this cancellation is contrived by victimage, by the choice of a sacrificial offering that is correspondingly absolute in the perfection of its fitness. 1960Encounter Dec. 70/1 Moosbrugger..has the double function of pharmakos and symptom. He can be held to be a case of victimage—an idea taken up by Clarisse—expiating the sins of others. 1979J. V. Harari Textual Strategies 56 Mimetic phenomena such as victimage and scapegoating are understood as real and originating events. |