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scapegoat englanniksi

  1. 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.

  2. (RQ:Tyndale Pentateuch)

  3. (RQ:Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica); alluding herein unto the heart of man, and the precious bloud of our Saviour; who was typified indeed by the Goat that was ſlain, and the ſcape Goat in the wilderneſſe;

  4. Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.

  5. (syn)

    ''He is making me a scapegoat for his own poor business decisions ''and'' the supply chain disruptions caused by the hurricane!''

  6. {{quote-text|en|year=1834|author=Thomas Babington Macaulay|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2332|title=William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

  7. To unfairly blame or punish someone for some failure; to make a scapegoat of.

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  9. {{quote-text|en|year=1975|author=Richard M. Harris; Adam Kendon; Mary Ritchie Key|title=Organization of Behavior in Face-to-face Interaction|page=66

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