Meaning of offscouring | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Refuse removed from something by scouring.
2. An outcast, a pariah.
   figuratively

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Examples

“1861, Theodore Winthrop, Washington as a Camp, The Following Is the Oath By repeating a form⟳ of words after a gentleman in a glazed cap and black raiment, we had suffered change⟳ into base⟳ assassins, the offscouring of society, starving for want⟳ of employment, and willing to “imbrue our coarse fists in fraternal blood” for the sum of eleven dollars a month, besides hard-tack, salt junk, and the hope⟳ of a Confederate States bond apiece for bounty, or free loot in the treasuries of Florida, Mississippi, and Arkansas, after the war.”

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