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offscouring

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off·scour·ing  (ôfskourng, f-)
n.
1. Something that is scoured off or disposed of; refuse. Often used in the plural.
2. A person regarded as fallen from society; an outcast. Often used in the plural.


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Being reviled we bless; being persecuted we suffer it; being defamed we entreat; we are made as the filth of the world, and as the offscouring of all things unto this day.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
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