Outcastness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being outcast. uncountable

    "You can hardly walk along the streets of a great city without seeing swarms rushing eagerly in chase of sin, although shame and scorn and outcastness and destitution and disease and death are glaring with fixt eyes upon them."

Example

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"You can hardly walk along the streets of a great city without seeing swarms rushing eagerly in chase of sin, although shame and scorn and outcastness and destitution and disease and death are glaring with fixt eyes upon them."

Etymology

From outcast + -ness.

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