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Golden Age Of The Victim(law)
Victim Impact Statement(law)
Victim/witness Assistance Programs(law)

victim (iou)



victim noun. L15.
[Latin victima.]
A living creature killed and offered as a sacrifice to a god or in a religious rite. L15.
b. Theology. Christ as a sacrifice of himself to expiate the sins of humankind. M18.
A person killed or tortured by another; a person subjected to cruelty, oppression, or other harsh or unfair treatment or suffering death, injury, ruin, etc., as a result of an event, circumstance, or oppressive or adverse impersonal agency. Also, a person killed, injured, ruined, etc., as a result of his or her own action in seeking to attain an object, gratify a passion, etc. M17.
J. Wainwright The victims were all children. Each child was manually strangled. I. Hamilton Jean..began falling victim to a series of minor illnesses. Punch Babel's characters..victims of their own foolishness as well as of the march of events. Times Educational Supplement 45 per cent of youngsters claimed to be victims of racial harassment. Journal of Refugee Studies Proposed to recognize the victims of the..civil wars as political persecutees. transf.: New York Review of Books The street lights were out in the alley..victims of years of municipal neglect.
A person who is taken advantage of; a dupe. L18.
Which? He's the victim of a professional fraudster using a forged card.
Comb.: victim support the provision of advice and counselling to victims of crime.
victimage noun (a) the condition of being a victim; (b) the practice of seeking out a victim, esp. a symbolic one, in order to expiate the guilt of some social group: M20.
victimhood noun the state or condition of being a victim M19.
victimless adjective (orig. & chiefly US) (of a crime) in which there is no injured party M20.