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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No doubt a few outcaste Rājpūts may have joined the gangs and become their leaders.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
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
Rebecca teaches a class of small boys in the outcaste Sunday school that gives preliminary baths.
From Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India by Alice B. Van Doren
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
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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