outcastness

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The state or quality of being outcast.

   • 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.
   • Hence if we are to look to the roots of the outcastness of the Irish it is necessary to consider other things beside Catholicism.
   • Paradoxically counterbalancing this psychologically defined feature is the second, evreiskaja otver-zhennost’ (Jewish outcastness), which pushes the Jew toward sociological disintegration.

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