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Bushranger vs Pariah - What's the difference?

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Bushranger is a related term of pariah.


As nouns the difference between bushranger and pariah

is that bushranger is (australia|historical) a convict or outlaw who escapes to the bush to avoid capture; a roving bandit who lives in the bush while pariah is an outcast.

bushranger

English

(wikipedia bushranger)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Australia, historical) A convict or outlaw who escapes to the bush to avoid capture; a roving bandit who lives in the bush.
  • * 1892 , , Fifty Years in the Making of Australian History , Volume 1, page 217,
    • We each discharged a shot in the direction of the explosion by the bushrangers , for we had no other guide in aiming, owing to the night being so very dark, which was rendered denser by the mizzling rain which had been falling all day.
  • * 2003 , Sharon Morgan, Land Settlement in Early Tasmania: Creating an Antipodean England , page 131,
    • The retribution for those who failed to help bushrangers' could be severe. Thomas Kenton was imprisoned in 1825, accused of having allowed Matthew Brady to escape, but was later murdered by the ' bushranger as an informer.28
  • * 2010 , John Hirst, Looking for Australia , page 82,
    • The live-and-let-live attitude hampered the police in tracking bushrangers'. A few squatters like John Walsh gave the '''bushrangers''' active support, but the police were thwarted as much by the unwillingness of landowners generally to report what they knew about the ' bushrangers or to take any active steps against them.
  • (Australia, obsolete) A person skilled in bushcraft.
  • * 1824 , The Australian'', quoted in 1966, Sidney J. Baker, ''The Australian Language , 2nd edition, chapter II section 2, page 31,
    • Mr Hovell lacks all the qualities befitting a bushranger .

    pariah

    English

    (wikipedia pariah)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An outcast.
  • A demographic group, species, or community that is generally despised.
  • Someone in exile.
  • A member of one of the oppressed social castes in India.
  • A person who is rejected (from society or home).

    • Quotations

    * 2014 : (Sylvia Ann Hewlett), (Executive Presence), Prologue *: I didn’t even need to finish the article to understand the damage it would do—which was swift and devastating. In a matter of weeks, Creating a Life was DOA—and, figuratively speaking, so was I. I went from being a much-feted author to a pariah , since one of the many problems of being trashed on the front page of the New York Times is that everyone is in the know. * 1985 — , The Two Doctors , p 14 *: ‘I’m a pariah , outlawed from Time Lord society.’ * 1842 — , The Fitz-Boodle Papers (Fitz-Boodle's Confessions, preface [http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/t/thackeray/william_makepeace/fitz/preface.html]) *: What is this smoking that it should be considered a crime? I believe in my heart that women are jealous of it, as of a rival. They speak of it as of some secret, awful vice that seizes upon a man, and makes him a pariah from genteel society.

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