noun
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a person who has been expelled from a caste
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a person having no caste
verb
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Origin of outcaste
Example Sentences
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The discrimination most negatively affects people from "low castes and outcastes", Paik said.
From BBC
Mr. Sardar is a Dalit, a class of Indians who are not just considered lower caste, but technically outcaste — what used to be called untouchable.
From New York Times
Between 1722 and 1723, after a series of blazes, the authorities launched a violent crackdown on suspected arsonists in which 101 people, often social outcastes or drifters, were burned at the stake.
From The Guardian
Only the Pariah, or "outcaste," the very lowest class of the people, eats any food that has been prepared in the kitchen of a Christian.
From Project Gutenberg
Would you deliberately make yourself a pauper, an outcaste, despised even by the pariahs?
From Project Gutenberg
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