Scapegoat

Language: English
Pronunciation: scape-goat
Part of Speech: noun

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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.

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"someone who is punished for the errors of others"

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