Crossword clues for outcaste
outcaste
Wiktionary
n. In Indian society, someone who does not belong to a caste. vb. (context transitive English) To expel from a caste.
WordNet
adj. not belonging to or having been expelled from a caste and thus having no place or status in society; "the foreigner was a casteless person" [syn: casteless]
n. a person belonging to no caste
Wikipedia
Outcaste may refer to:
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Untouchability:
- Casteless people in India and Nepal ( Dalit; modern self-designation of untouchable people in India)
- Casteless people in Tibet ( Ragyabpa)
- Casteless people in Japan ( Burakumin)
- Casteless people in Korea ( Baekjeong)
- Casteless people in Yemen and Ethiopia ( Khadem)
- Casteless people in France ( Cagot; former outcaste community)
Usage examples of "outcaste".
Brecht and turned at last to face the outcaste Barrani lord known, in this fief, as Nightshade.
She understood what the word outcaste meant as it applied to her own race: it meant you were either in jail, were about to be or were incredibly unlucky with lawyers.
Kaylin had always had a sneaking suspicion that this was because Barrani, at heart, were all sons of bitches, and those who were officially outcaste were outcaste merely because they had enough personal power to actually survive being openly rebellious.
Look, Kaylin, even a Wolf cub knows that there are no outcaste Dragons.
Kaylin realized, when he fell silent, that there were no outcaste Dragons.
Employing an outcaste Barrani would not be in the best interests of any one of those Lords.
I find it odd that you stand before your Lord and mine, beside a mortal who has garnered the interest of the outcaste, the Lord of the West March and Lord Sanabalis.
Cow, who having done some wrong has been outcasted from her Herd, you lose faith in me, and treat me as a traitor.
Lost ships are mourned or forgotten, and the living floor of the sea takes them and hides them with barnacles, gives them as caves to morays and ratfish and cray outcastes.
And as for Alaric and his heritage—Father, there are many bastard sons who grow up as outcastes, with no name but the name of a dishonored mother, and no man’s hand to guide them, and no more fortune than they can wrest from the world by the toil of their hands, or by banditry.
And even the Southrons dwelling there were, for the most part, outlaws and outcastes from their own barbarian society.
In rage at his outcasting, he sought to defy it, to assert the rights of his common mortal blood.
They sat above him like judges with the power of outcasting in their hands.
The next was gangrene, a stink of rotting live flesh so terrible that even some physicians could not bear it-a stench which ratified the outcasting of lepers in a way no mere compassion or unprejudice could oppose.
That susceptibility led to despair and self-contempt, to the conviction that the outcasting of the leper was just-condign punishment for an affliction which must have been deserved.