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单词 outcaste
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outcaste

noun /ˈaʊtkɑːst /
(In Hindu society) a person who has no caste or a person who is expelled from their caste.Rather, untouchables are outcastes placed below the sudra caste....
  • The outcaste is an outsider, outside the anthropology of life and death; he is less than an animal, a false metaphor, born to be a slave by divine law, fated to be flogged, lynched, reduced into a daily caricature in his own eyes.
  • Big groups of harijans, or outcastes, from India were drumming and singing while African road-workers in blue overalls downed tools and African women downed bags to dance to the music from another continent.
verb /aʊtˈkɑːst / [with object]
Cause (someone) to lose their caste: he has deliberately elected to outcaste himself...
  • He continues, ‘The only place where we're outcasted from is the Northside of Chicago.’
  • And after the situation had cooled into oblivion, I was left with an enlightening feeling of how being purposely outcasted feels like.
  • Ralph realises he has been outcasted, but does not regret his decision not to follow the others, and he now understands why he has been rejected.

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