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What is another word for sacrificial victim?

Pronunciation: [sˌakɹɪfˈɪʃə͡l vˈɪktɪm] (IPA)

The phrase "sacrificial victim" refers to someone who is offered as a sacrifice to a deity or as a form of appeasement. Some synonyms for this phrase include "offering," "sacrifice," "ritual victim," "immolating victim," "human sacrifice," and "propitiatory sacrifice." The connotations of each synonym vary - "offering" could refer to any sort of gift given to a deity, while "human sacrifice" is a much more specific term. In any case, all of these terms carry the same grim significance of a life being given up in order to achieve some sort of supernatural or religious aim.
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  • Man … always acts either self-loving, just for the hell of it, or God-loving, just for the heaven of it; his reasons, his appetites are secondary motivations.The idea of a sacrificial victim is not new; but that it should be the victim who chooses to be sacrificed, and the sacrificers who deny that any sacrifice has been made, is very new.
    W. H. Auden

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