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Definition of Religious outcast

1. Noun. A person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Religious Outcast

Literary usage of Religious outcast

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Unitarian Review edited by Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen (1875)
"... in a chapel which has no subsidy from the government, and no place in any recognized organization; a religious outcast from the Protestant Church, ..."

2. The Present Religious Crisis by Augustus Blauvelt (1882)
"... and the birds of the air have nests, but the modern religious outcast has scarcely where to lay his head. Take another illustration. ..."

3. ... Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons by Adolphus Frederick Schauffler (1894)
"(4) He was a publican, a religious outcast, from whom nothing good was expected, and in whom every evil was looked for. He was apparently on the side of the ..."

4. ... Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons by Adolphus Frederick Schauffler (1899)
"As a publican he was a religious outcast. He stood against his country and its glorious hopes. He was despised by the good, and hated by the patriotic. ..."

5. The Colonies, 1492-1750 by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1910)
"Rhode Island was founded by a religious outcast, and always remained as an asylum for those sectaries who Character- could find no home elsewhere. ..."

6. Reviews and Critical Essays by Charles Henry Pearson (1896)
"Henceforth Emerson was a religious outcast; and we must not measure the significance of this situation by the latitude now accorded to religious ..."

7. The Colonies, 1492-1750 by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1891)
"Rhode Island was founded by a religious outcast, and always remained as an asylum for those sectaries who Character- could find no home elsewhere ..."

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