exile vs outcast

exile

noun
  • Someone who is banished from their home or country. 

  • The state of being banished from one's home or country. 

verb
  • To send (someone or something) into exile. 

outcast

noun
  • One that has been excluded from a society or system, a pariah, a leper. 

  • The amount of increase in the bulk of grain during malting. 

  • A quarrel. 

  • Synonym of outsider: someone who does not belong, a misfit. 

verb
  • To cast out; to banish. 

adj
  • That has been cast out; banished, ostracized. 

How often have the words exile and outcast occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )