outcast

noun (an outcast, outcasts); adjective (outcast)

«outcast» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

An outcast is a person who is not accepted by other people and is pushed out of a group or society. tree →

In the lessons

In stories and ethics lessons: a character treated as an outcast because they are different; the lesson is often about kindness and inclusion. In the Bible: Jesus spent time with outcasts, such as lepers and tax collectors.

Examples

The ugly duckling felt like an outcast. tree →
Nobody should be made an outcast at school. tree →
Jesus welcomed outcasts and sinners. tree →
After the argument, he felt like an outcast. tree →
The story is about an outcast who becomes a hero. tree →
Lepers were once treated as outcasts. tree →
Accompanied by his faithful and devoted daughter Antigone, Oedipus quitted Thebes and became a miserable and homeless outcast, begging his bread from place to place. tree →

Note

Countable. Stress on OUT. Similar: outsider (but «outsider» is milder and can be chosen). Opposite: insider, member.

In Jewish tradition

Isaiah tells Moab to shelter Israel's outcasts. Jeremiah promises that God will heal Zion, whom enemies mocked as an outcast.

Interpretation. Tradition reads these as promises that the scattered people will be gathered home again, and that God cares for those everyone else rejects.

Examples

'Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive. (Prophets ISA.16.3, JPS 1917) tree →
For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they have called thee an outcast: 'She is Zion, there is none that careth for her.' (Prophets JER.30.17, JPS 1917) tree →
Let mine outcasts dwell with thee; as for Moab, be thou a covert to him from the face of the spoiler.' For the extortion is at an end, spoiling ceaseth, they that trampled down are consumed out of the land; (Prophets ISA.16.4, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

Countable. Stress on OUT. Similar: outsider (but «outsider» is milder and can be chosen). Opposite: insider, member.

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «outcast» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«outcast» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
Trees and pragmatics of «outcast» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«outcast» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.

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