noun
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a person who has been expelled from a caste
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a person having no caste
verb
Etymology
Origin of outcaste
Example Sentences
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He is an outcaste in every sense; in other words an outlaw.
From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny
And the elder white outcaste shall point to the footprints of the princess.
From Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance by Lady Isabel Burton
Under the thatch of each mud-walled hovel of the outcaste village there is the same stir of the returning day.
From Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India by Alice B. Van Doren
And the younger white outcaste shall point to the queen's footprints.
From Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance by Lady Isabel Burton
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.
From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny
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