offscouring

American  

[awf-skou^uhr-ing, -skou-er-, of-] / ˈɔfˌskaʊər ɪŋ, -ˌskaʊ ər-, ˈɒf- /

noun

1. Often offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.

2. a social outcast.

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Etymology

Origin of offscouring

1520–30; off + scour ¹ ( def. ), + -ing ¹ ( def. ), after verb phrase scour off

Example Sentences

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offscouring

They were the despised and rejected, the wretched and the spat upon, the earth’s offscouring; and he was in their company, and they would swallow up his soul.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

It is here called "The offscouring of the British land."

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

Now, of course, we are not about to become the offscouring of the earth by yielding these up to destruction.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 by Various

The third is—to her coffin; broken down; beggared, perhaps starving, she’ll die surrounded by the offscouring of the earth—happy if she reaches her grave before she has run her full course.’

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Lewis Gaylord Clark

Disciple Nevertheless it is very grievous to be generally despised of the World, and to be trampled upon by men as the very offscouring thereof.

From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Jakob Böhme