Outcast

a.	1.	Cast out; degraded.
n.	1.	One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond. The Lord . . . gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. - Ps. cxlvii. 2.
	2.	A quarrel; a contention.

Noun	1.	outcast - a person who is rejected (from society or home) Synonyms: castaway, pariah, Ishmael
Adj.	1.	outcast - excluded from a society Synonyms: friendless

DP, Diogenes, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Ishmael, Jim Crow, Timon of Athens, alien, anchoress, anchorite, apartheid, ascetic, bedridden invalid, cast-off, castaway, chronic poor, cloistered monk, closet cynic, color bar, declasse, defenseless, depressed class, desert fathers, desert saints, desolate, displaced person, division, eremite, ethnocentrism, evacuee, evictee, exclusiveness, exile, exiled, expatriate, expellee, fatherless, foreigner, ghetto-dwellers, godforsaken, helpless, hermit, hermitess, homebody, houseless, insularity, insulation, invalid, isolation, isolationist, kithless, know-nothingism, leper, loner, marabout, motherless, narrowness, out-group, outcast of society, outcaste, outcasts, outlaw, outside the gates, outside the pale, outsider, pariah, parochialism, persona non grata, pillar saint, pillarist, poverty subculture, quarantine, race hatred, racial segregation, recluse, refugee, reject, rejected, seclusion, seclusionist, segregation, separation, shut-in, slum-dwellers, snobbishness, social outcast, solitaire, solitary, solitudinarian, stateless, stay-at-home, stranger, stylite, the disadvantaged, the dispossessed, the poor, the powerless, the underprivileged, tightness, unacceptable person, undesirable, unestablished, unfriended, unharbored, unhoused, unplaced, unsettled, untouchable, xenophobia

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