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outcasting

outcasting is the present participle and gerund of outcast.

outcasting is the present participle and gerund of outcaste.

Meaning of outcast

Verb

outcast (third-person singular simple present outcasts, present participle outcasting, simple past and past participle outcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) outcasted)

  1. (transitive) To cast out; to banish.
    • And her faire yellow locks behind her flew, / Looſely diſperſt with puff of euery blaſt: / All as a blazing ſtarre doth farre outcaſt / His hearie beames, and flaming lockes diſpredd, / At ſight whereof the people ſtand aghaſt: […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16, page 395

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Meaning of outcaste

Verb

outcaste (third-person singular simple present outcastes, present participle outcasting or outcasteing, simple past and past participle outcasted)

  1. (transitive) To expel from a caste.

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Noun

outcasting (plural outcastings)

  1. An instance of casting out; expulsion.
    • Etymological figures are sundry kinds of changings, and outcastings, or onsettings, of breathsounds and clippings, in the forms of words.1854, William Barnes, A Philological Grammar

Forms of outcasting

pluraloutcastings

Questions about outcasting

What does outcasting mean?
Outcasting means an instance of casting out; expulsion.
What is outcasting the present participle and gerund of?
Outcasting is the present participle and gerund of outcast.
What part of speech is outcasting?
Outcasting is a noun.
What is the plural of outcasting?
The plural of outcasting is outcastings.

Words near outcasting in the dictionary

  1. outcast
  2. outcaste
  3. outcasted
  4. outcasteing
  5. outcastes
  6. outcasting
  7. outcastings
  8. outcastish
  9. outcastness
  10. outcasts
  11. outcatch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outcasting (page history and authors); outcast (page history and authors); outcaste (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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