victimage
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of scapegoating a person or group in order to avoid societal guilt.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It was a source of murmuring discontent to her, in the first years of an intelligent girlhood, to feel how entirely they (for it was always 'they' in her thought) had been shut out from the fairer social world, the victims of she scarcely knew what, but helpless in that victimage, and utterly weak to master circumstances."
- "Constant victimage to a feeble stomach while instrumenting Tannhäuser. (1845.)"
- "Exploration of the victim's history can bring about the insight that the victimage is more than coincidence and that he has had a part in promoting it."
- "What is so terrible about victimage is that, invariably, one man's guilt, or a group's guilt, results in some other person's or persons' injury or death."
- "Both aesthetic and social logic motivate the victimages."
- "Victimage and populism work in conjunction."