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Pariah vs Slavery - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between pariah and slavery

is that pariah is an outcast while slavery is an institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.

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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    slavery

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers.
  • A condition of servitude endured by a slave.
  • (figuratively) A condition in which one is captivated or subjugated, as by greed or drugs.
  • * 1818 , ,"The Revolt of Islam", canto 8, stanza 16,
  • Man seeks for gold in mines that he may weave / A lasting chain for his own slavery .

    See also

    * debt bondage * bonded labor * bonded labour

    References

    * * * * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996.