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Definition of Scapegoat

Scapegoat
Scapegoat Scape"goat`, n. [Scape (for escape) + goat.] 1. (Jewish Antiq.) A goat upon whose head were symbolically placed the sins of the people, after which he was suffered to escape into the wilderness. --Lev. xvi. 10. 2. Hence, a person or thing that is made to bear blame for others. --Tennyson.

Meaning of Scapegoat from wikipedia

- In the Bible, a scapegoat is one of a pair of kid goats that is released into the wilderness, taking with it all sins and impurities, while the other...
- Scapegoating is the practice of singling out a person or group for unmerited blame and consequent negative treatment. Scapegoating may be conducted by...
- blame. Scapegoat or The Scapegoat may also refer to: Scapegoat Wilderness, a Wilderness Area in Montana Scapegoat Mountain, a mountain in the Scapegoat Wilderness...
- Scapegoat Mountain is a summit in the Scapegoat Wilderness of Lewis and Clark County, Montana, in the United States. With an elevation of 9,202 feet (2...
- In computer science, a scapegoat tree is a self-balancing binary search tree, invented by Arne Andersson in 1989 and again by Igal Galperin and Ronald...
- Scapegoat Wax is an American hip hop and breakbeat band from Chico, California that was started by Marty James and Jonny Z (AKA J.DeVille). The band was...
- The Scapegoat (1854–1856) is a painting by William Holman Hunt which depicts the "scapegoat" described in the Book of Leviticus. On the Day of Atonement...
- The Scapegoat is a British film adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1957 novel of the same name. The drama is written and directed by Charles Sturridge...
- Mimetic theory has two main parts - the desire itself, and the resulting scapegoating. Girard's idea proposes that all desire is merely an imitation of another's...
- Transition. Males wrote Scapegoat Generation, a book that analyzes statistics to dispel myths about young people in the 1990s. The Scapegoat Generation: America's...