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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"From all we have heard it is probably that the time is not far distant when I shall be the real master, since the son you bore your husband has become an outcaste."
From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny
He is an outcaste in every sense; in other words an outlaw.
From The Outcaste by F. E. Penny
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
A sept of Korku; a man of this sept has the privilege of directing the ceremony for the readmission of an outcaste.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
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
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