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offscouring

[ awf-skouuhr-ing, -skou-er-, of- ]

noun

  1. Often offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
  2. a social outcast.


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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of offscouring1

1520鈥30; off + scour 1( def ), + -ing 1( def ), after verb phrase scour off
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Example Sentences

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One might dismiss Trump鈥檚 threats as merely an offscouring of his singularly insecure and vindictive personality.

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They were the despised and rejected, the wretched and the spat upon, the earth鈥檚 offscouring; and he was in their company, and they would swallow up his soul.

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The offscouring of all London flocked to the Sunday services as to a public entertainment.

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Thou cut-purse, thou low ruffian, terror of old women, thou offscouring of man.

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His instrument of conversion is 鈥渢he foolishness of preaching;鈥 鈥渢he weak things of the earth confound the strong;鈥 鈥渨e hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no home;鈥 鈥渨e are reviled and bless, we are persecuted, and blasphemed, and are made the refuse of this world, and the offscouring of all things.鈥

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