offscouring

[ awf-skouuhr-ing, -skou-er-, of- ]

noun

1. Often offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
2. a social outcast.

Word History and Origins

Origin of offscouring¹

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

Example Sentences

Though his visit was an errand of mercy, yet he was treated as the offscouring of all things.

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The best of His disciples, those who had caught the enthusiasm of His idea, were treated as the offscouring of the earth.

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The degradation of the ass, the offscouring of all things, is probably at the root of this.

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Is it because those who cherish it are treated as the offscouring of all flesh, in the place of their birth?

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They were dead to the world, and willing to be accounted as the dung and offscouring of all things, so that they might win Christ.

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