scapegoat
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source: By William Holman Hunt - Козёл отпущения, Public Domain
noun
1. a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.
«…の» 身代り, 罪を負わされた人, スケープゴート «for»
2. (in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
〘聖書〙 贖罪（しょくざい）のヤギ〘古代ユダヤでは贖罪の日にヤギに人々の罪を負わせ, 野に放った〙
verb with object
make a scapegoat of.
(罪･責任を)…に(不当に)負わせる
DERIVATIVES
scapegoater noun
scapegoating noun
scapegoatism |-ˌizəm| noun
ORIGIN
mid 16th century: from archaic scape‘escape’+ goat.