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Outcant vs Outcast - What's the difference?

outcant | outcast |

As verbs the difference between outcant and outcast

is that outcant is to surpass in canting while outcast is to cast out; to banish.

As an adjective outcast is

that has been cast out; banished, ostracized.

As a noun outcast is

one that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah.

outcant

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To surpass in canting.
  • (Pope)
    (Webster 1913)

    outcast

    English

    Verb

  • To cast out; to banish.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
  • All as a blazing starre doth farre outcast / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes dispredd [...].

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That has been cast out; banished, ostracized.
  • * Longfellow
  • Outcast , rejected.

    Noun

    (wikipedia outcast) (en noun)
  • One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah.
  • Synonyms

    * (pariah) outsider, vagrant, exile, beggar * See also

    Derived terms

    * social outcast

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