victimage

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state of being a victim. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  2. The act of scapegoating a person or group in order to avoid societal guilt. countable,uncountable
    — 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.

词形变化

victimages plural

词源

From victim + -age.
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