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Outcast   /ˈaʊtkˌæst/   Listen
noun
Outcast  n.  
1.
One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond. "The Lord... gathereth together the outcasts of Israel."
2.
A quarrel; a contention. (Scot.)


adjective
Outcast  adj.  Cast out; degraded. "Outcast, rejected."





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"Outcast" Quotes from Famous Books



... big town, which flounders under the questionable dignities of being a station of an army corps and a prefecture: Bureaucracy and Officialdom are writ large all over everything, and a poor mortal without a handle to his name, or a ribbon in his buttonhole, is looked upon as a sort of outcast when he enters a cafe, and accordingly he waits a ...
— The Automobilist Abroad • M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
... "'I am an outcast now,' said poor Peggy; 'I have neither house nor home; I have no father, no mother, no brother, an' he that I loved, an' said that he loved me, has deserted me. Oh,' said she, 'I have nothing to care ...
— The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine • William Carleton
... had brought out the wretched position of the Uitlanders, who, though forming the majority of the population, and the source of all the wealth of the country, and paying all the taxes, were yet treated as an outcast race, and deprived of every right possessed by people ...
— With Buller in Natal - A Born Leader • G. A. Henty
... the appointed means. His way is in the sanctuary. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd. There is but one refuge for the outcast. I have but one alleviation to offer you. It is all and every thing. Are you ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various
... Everything in Ranny's house pained her. Violet's voice that filled it pained her, and the crying of the little children. Ranny's face pained her. Most of all it pained her to see Dossie's little cot drawn up beside Ranny's bed in the back room; they looked so forlorn, the two of them; so outcast ...
— The Combined Maze • May Sinclair


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