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Definition of Offscourings
1. offscouring [n] - See also: offscouring
Lexicographical Neighbors of Offscourings
Literary usage of Offscourings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An exposition of the epistles of st. Paul, and of the catholic epistles by John MacEvilly (1875)
"The word " offscourings''has the same signification with " refuse ;" they both
mean the filth which is removed in the cleansing and scouring of unclean ..."
2. An Elementary Latin Dictionary by Charlton Thomas Lewis, Hugh Macmaster Kingery (1918)
"That which is remoted by cleansing, sweepings, offscourings: Vestae,/nwn the
temple of Vesta, ... Only /Ли-., sweepings, offscourings, filth, ..."
3. Record of Christian Work edited by Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt (1910)
"Every once in a little while someone talks to me about the "offscourings of Europe."
I have been through Ellis Island in the line of these incoming men, ..."
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