castaway
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Castaway \Cast"a*way\, n.
1. One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
[1913 Webster]
2. One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a
reprobate.
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Lest . . . when I have preached to others, I myself
should be a castaway. --1 Cor. ix.
27.
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from
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Castaway
Gr. adokimos, (1 Cor. 9:27), one regarded as unworthy (R.V.,
"rejected"); elsewhere rendered "reprobate" (2 Tim. 3:8, etc.);
"rejected" (Heb. 6:8, etc.).
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "castaway":
DP, Ishmael, abandoned, aground, cast-off, castoff, declasse,
deep six, derelict, deserted, discard, discarded, discarding,
disowned, displaced person, disposal, disused, dogie, dumping,
elimination, evictee, exile, expatriate, expellee, flotsam,
flotsam and jetsam, forsaken, foundered, foundling, grounded,
high and dry, jetsam, jettison, jettisoned, junk, junking, lagan,
left, leper, marooned, on the rocks, orphan, outcast,
outcast of society, outcaste, outlaw, outside the gates,
outside the pale, pariah, persona non grata, refuse, reject,
rejectamenta, rejected, rejection, removal, rubbish, scrapping,
set fast, shipwrecked, social outcast, stranded, stuck, stuck fast,
swamped, throwaway, trash, unacceptable person, undesirable,
untouchable, waif, waifs and strays, wastrel, wrecked
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