outcastness

English

Etymology

outcast +‎ -ness

Noun

outcastness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being outcast.
   • 1846, Julius Charles Hare, The mission of the Comforter, and other sermons‎^[1]:

     You can hardly walk along the streets of a great city without seeing swarms rushing eagerly in chase of sin, although shame and scorn and outcastness and destitution and disease and death are glaring with fixt eyes upon them.

   • 1992, Patrick O'Sullivan, The Irish world wide: history, heritage, identity, page 66:

     Hence if we are to look to the roots of the outcastness of the Irish it is necessary to consider other things beside Catholicism.

   • 2008, Vivian Liska, Contemporary Jewish Writing in Europe: A Guide, page 198:

     Paradoxically counterbalancing this psychologically defined feature is the second, evreiskaja otver-zhennost’ (Jewish outcastness), which pushes the Jew toward sociological disintegration.