单词 | scapegoat |
释义 | scapegoatn. 1. In the Mosaic ritual of the Day of Atonement (Leviticus xvi), that one of two goats that was chosen by lot to be sent alive into the wilderness, the sins of the people having been symbolically laid upon it, while the other was appointed to be sacrificed. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > kinds of sacrifice > [noun] > of animal > scapegoat scapegoat1530 pharmakos1903 society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > atonement > [noun] > for another > one who makes scapegoat1530 satisfactory1562 sin-eatera1697 1530 Bible (Tyndale) Lev. xvi. f. xxixv And Aaron cast lottes ouer the .ij. gootes: one lotte for the Lorde, and another for a scapegoote. [So 1537, 1539, 1560 (Geneva), 1568, 1611.] 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan xli Our Saviour Christs sufferings seem to be here [sc. in Lev. xvi] figured..: He was both the sacrificed Goat and the Scape Goat. 2. One who is blamed or punished for the sins of others. (So French bouc émissaire.) ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > scapegoat wispa1450 whipping-boy1647 scapegoat1824 whip-boy1845 whipping-girl1896 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [noun] > one who is blamed for actions of others scapegoat1824 lightning rod1834 fall guy1895 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 204 Country-boys..are patient, too, and bear their fate as scape-goats, (for all sins whatsoever are laid as matters of course to their door,..), with amazing resignation. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 416 He has been made the scape-goat for many of the sins both of other individuals and of the whole nation. 1888 F. J. Goodnow in J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. lxxxviii. 193 The leaders of Tammany undertook to make a scapegoat of Conolly—the least respected and most unpopular of their number. Draft additions 1993 ˈscapegoatism n. = scapegoating n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [noun] teleeOE tolec1000 wite?c1225 lacking1377 blaminga1382 blame1393 lack1487 dashing1591 taxation1605 inculpation1822 scapegoating1943 scapegoatism1961 1961 in N. Webster 1969 Worship XLIII. 630 The dedicated anti-Communist [is]..an apostle of scapegoatism. 1983 Times 7 July 1/7 The American action, he said, was ‘a prime example of scapegoatism’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). scapegoatv. transitive. To make a scapegoat of (someone); to subject to scapegoating. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > substitute [verb (transitive)] > scapegoat scapegoat1943 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [verb (transitive)] > throw blame on witec893 putc1380 pina1627 load1662 to lay (or cast) the loada1715 scapegoat1943 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > want of confidence > [verb (transitive)] > blame others scapegoat1943 1943 Jrnl. Abnormal & Social Psychol. Clin. Suppl. 38 143 Persons who had been inclined to scapegoat him originally. 1972 Guardian 27 Dec. 12/3 We either scapegoat the individual..or we scapegoat society. 1977 R. L. Duncan Temple Dogs (1978) i. ii. 55 A company is really too large to scapegoat. Derivatives ˈscapegoated adj. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [adjective] > scapegoated scapegoated1976 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [adjective] > blamed impugned1599 scapegoated1976 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > want of confidence > [adjective] > blamed scapegoated1976 1976 Child's Guardian Winter 13/3 Oliver's problems illustrate one of the great difficulties in trying to help a scapegoated child. Often the parent/child relationships are so complicated that they seem to need each other in order to continue hurting each other. ˈscapegoater n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [noun] > one who blames blamer1387 lacker1496 remordera1529 impugner1539 taxer1601 impugnator1678 finger pointer1912 scapegoater1943 the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > [noun] > scapegoat > one who makes scapegoater1943 the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > want of confidence > [noun] > blaming others > one who scapegoater1943 1943 Jrnl. Abnormal & Social Psychol. Clin. Suppl. 38 151 The immediate and desired objective of the scapegoaters was to relieve their feelings of frustration, of fear [etc.]. 1974 S. G. Shoham Society & Absurd iv. iv. 162 The child becomes a receptacle for the ressentiment of the scape~goater. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < |
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