recipient
/ɹəˈsɪp.i.ənt/ noun C1- One who receives. · the recipient of money or goods· My e-mail never reached the intended recipient.
- A person receiving donor organs or tissues.
- The portion of an alembic or other still in which the distilled liquid is collected.
Plural recipients
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The delighted recipients of these munificent gifts would gladly have poured out their thanks to their generous benefactor, but they had seen him, upon quitting the hut, merely give some orders to a sailor, and then springing lightly on horseback, leave Marseilles by the Porte d’Aix.
This manipulative formulation subtly shifts the locus of blame from the perpetrator's inappropriate action to the recipient's supposedly hypersensitive emotional reaction.
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