outcast vs vagrant

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. 

vagrant

noun
  • A person without settled employment or habitation who usually supports himself or herself by begging or some dishonest means; a tramp, a vagabond. 

  • An animal, typically a bird, found outside its species' usual range. 

  • Vagrans egista, a widely distributed Asian butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. 

adj
  • Wandering from place to place, particularly when without any settled employment or habitation. 

  • Of or pertaining to a vagabond or vagrant, or a person fond of wandering. 

  • Moving without a certain direction; roving, wandering; also, erratic, unsettled. 

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