"decapitee" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1905 May 29, “Better Times Expected by Frank Selee’s Colts: The Chicago Team Is Strong in Fielding and Has a Superfluity of Good Pitchers, But Has Batted Poorly Up to Date”, in The Pittsburg Press, volume 22, number 148, Pittsburg, Pa., page four:",
          "text": "Wicker has not been used at all this season, but his great work of the last two years seems to preclude the posibility^([sic]) of Bob’s being the decapitee.",
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          "ref": "1929, Time, page 6:",
          "text": "The most interesting (and clearest) was one of a decapitation carried out in the presence of a mandarin and an appreciative crowd of villagers. The utility of the queue was noteworthy. The decapitee was kneeling.",
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          "ref": "1931, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert: A Topsy-Turvy Adventure, page 5:",
          "text": "For, observe: “Ko-Ko” reels off a “little list” of eligible victims (regardless of his subsequent statement that “flirting is the only crime punishable with decapitation”), and then apparently forgets all about it when “Pooh-Bah” and “Pish-Tush” assure him that he himself is the obvious decapitee.",
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          "text": "Moreover, instead of murder, the act of decapitation contains no malice or evil intent. It is a purely impersonal mater—except to the decapitee.",
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          "ref": "2009, Lisa M. Bitel, “Relics”, in Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe, Oxford University Press, page 199:",
          "text": "Pilgrims may still visit her head, along with the skulls of many other holy men and virgins in the church of the classic decapitee, John the Baptist, at Lumiar.",
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        "One who is decapitated."
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