outcast
part of speech
noun (an outcast, outcasts); adjective (outcast)
meaning for a pupil
An outcast is a person who is not accepted by other people and is pushed out of a group or society. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and 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. In the primary 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
- '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 →
- 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.
Trees and pragmatics
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