offscouring

American  

[awf-skou^uhr-ing, -skou-er-, of-] / ˈɔfˌskaʊər ɪŋ, -ˌskaʊ ər-, ˈɒf- /

noun

1. Often offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.

2. a social outcast.

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Etymology

Origin of offscouring

1520–30; off + scour ¹ ( def. ), + -ing ¹ ( def. ), after verb phrase scour off

Example Sentences

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

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

The third is—to her coffin; broken down; beggared, perhaps starving, she’ll die surrounded by the offscouring of the earth—happy if she reaches her grave before she has run her full course.’

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord

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

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.

Never did the universe before witness so astonishing a spectacle, as a nation destroyed as a nation, but preserved as individuals--preserved to suffer, and to be accounted the offscouring of all things.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Cox, Francis Augustus

Disciple Nevertheless it is very grievous to be generally despised of the World, and to be trampled upon by men as the very offscouring thereof.

From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Böhme, Jakob