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

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

Truly, as says the apostle, we are the offscouring of the earth, and we now stink in the nostrils of the men of the world.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn

We are made as it were the filthiness of the world, the offscouring of all things, even unto this time.

From The first New Testament printed in English by

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 Böhme, Jakob

Never did the universe before witness so astonishing a spectacle, as a nation destroyed as a nation, but preserved as individuals--preserved to suffer, and to be accounted the offscouring of all things.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Cox, Francis Augustus