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Definition of "offscouring" [off•scour•ing]

  • Something that is scoured off or disposed of; refuse. Often used in the plural. (noun)
  • A person regarded as fallen from society; an outcast. Often used in the plural. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "offscouring" in a sentence
  • "Officers desirous of Fame), but the "offscouring" & rabble of the land -- men who have nothing at stake, not even their own lives we might say, since they care so little for anything."
  • "But those who consider worldly pomp a mere offscouring and all under the sun mere nothingness if only they may win Christ, those who are dead with Christ, have risen with Him and have crucified the flesh with its vices and concupiscences - they will echo the words: "Who shall separate us from the charity of Christ?""
  • "We are weak . . . we have become, and are now, as the refuse of the world, the offscouring of all things See 1 Corinthians 4:9-16."