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What is the noun for scapegoat?

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scapegoat
  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. Someone punished for the error or errors of someone else.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Lou explained that he was the scapegoat for the entire scandal.”
scapegoater
  1. A person who makes a scapegoat of another person (punishes someone for another's wrongdoing)
scapegoatism
  1. The practice of holding somebody accountable as a scapegoat.
scapegoating
  1. The act of making somebody a scapegoat.
scapegoatings
  1. plural of scapegoating
scapegoatisms
  1. plural of scapegoatism
scapegoaters
  1. plural of scapegoater
scapegoats
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