Meanings
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verb
To cast out; to banish.
And her faire yellow locks behind her flew, / Looſely diſperſt with puff of euery blaſt: / All as a blazing ſtarre doth farre outcaſt / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes diſpredd, / At ſight whereof the people ſtand aghaſt: […].
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adj
That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
O, horrible fate! Outcast, rejected, / As one with pestilence infected!
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3
noun
One that has been excluded from a society or a system, a pariah, a leper.
If ever you chance upon the whole truth about any outcast or many, never tell it to just anybody, or at least not right away; unjust exclusion from a society is just one kind of hardship.
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noun
Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit.
Do you ever feel like an outcast? You don't have to fit into the format Oh, but it's okay to be different 'Cause baby, so am I.
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Etymology
From Middle English outcaste, outecaste, equivalent to out- + cast.