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Someone who has been harmed, and whose pain deserves to be believed, not judged.
means A person harmed, injured, or killed by someone or something — an event, a crime, a circumstance beyond their control.
from From Latin victima, meaning a creature killed as a religious sacrifice — an animal offered up to the gods. The exact deeper root is uncertain, though scholars have linked it, cautiously, to old words for 'consecrated thing' or 'binding.' The word carried that sacrificial sense into English — someone destroyed for a purpose beyond themselves — and only later widened to cover anyone harmed by crime, disaster, or circumstance, sacrificed to nothing more sacred than bad luck.
- legal vs felt
- courts need proof, feelings don't
- etymology
- latin victima meant sacrificial animal