英:['aʊtkɑ:st]
美:['aʊtˌkɑst]
英:['aʊtkɑ:st]
美:['aʊtˌkɑst]
Noun
1. a person belonging to no caste
Adjective
1. not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society;
"the foreigner was a casteless person"
The first known use of outcaste was in 1876
outcastnoun
a person who is cast out by society : pariah
outcastenoun
a Hindu who has been forced out of a caste for violation of its rules
one who has no caste
1 But the Chinese visitors were in company with the foreigners, and all foreigners were outcaste in this eastern plain.
2 No doubt a few outcaste Rājpūts may have joined the gangs and become their leaders.
3 My son a cursed Christian! an outcaste! an alien! lower than the pariah, more loathed than the punchama sweeper!
4 No people on earth today are more proud than the Brahmans; none more hopelessly abject than the Pariahs and other outcastes.
5 "From all we have heard it is probably that the time is not far distant when I shall be the real master, since the son you bore your husband has become an outcaste."
6 Remember, please, the condition, previous to their embracing our faith, of those outcaste people who now constitute three-fourths of the Christian community.
7 He has died an outcaste, defiled and unpurified, and as such he must be buried—not burned—at night with shame and dishonour and with no ceremonies.
8 "Do as you are told," he said at last; and he spoke more gently to the unfortunate outcaste than he had done before.
9 Their work dealt specifically with the suburbs and issues concerning geographical outcastes.
10 By accepting food from the warder of a city, one descends to the status of the lowest outcaste.
11 He was an outcaste sunk to the lowest depths of degradation, ranked with the "untouchables," and regarded with loathing as unclean and abominable.
12 They early found an opening among the outcaste people as the Baptists had found among the same in the South; and they eagerly entered the open door and vigorously prosecuted their endeavours for that class.
13 The Presbyterian missionaries have been especially successful in attracting large numbers of outcastes into the Christian Church.
14 Tell him that though he is lost to his father, to his religion, to the State—though he is an outcaste and an exile, his mother remains his mother still.
15 “The outcastes are answering back, and in some cases biting back.”
16 No one laments this lapse from orthodoxy more sincerely than the outcaste Chamār.
17 A sept of Korku; a man of this sept has the privilege of directing the ceremony for the readmission of an outcaste.
18 Rebecca teaches a class of small boys in the outcaste Sunday school that gives preliminary baths.
19 Crossing the seas was, by itself, supposed to make a person outcaste according to Hindu orthodoxy.
20 He is an outcaste in every sense; in other words an outlaw.