outcast vs pariah

outcast

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

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

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

  • A quarrel. 

verb
  • To cast out; to banish. 

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

pariah

noun
  • Synonym of outcast: A person despised and excluded by their family, community, or society, especially a member of the untouchable castes in Indian society. 

  • A similarly despised group of people or species of animal. 

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