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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Castaway \Cast"a*way\, n. 1. One who or that which is cast away or shipwrecked. 2. One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate. Lest . . . when I have preached to others I myself should be a castaway. --1 Cor. ix 27. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Castaway \Cast"a*way\, a. Of no value; rejected; useless. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: castaway adj 1: suffering the misfortune of shipwreck; "shipwrecked sailors"; "castaways marooned on a desert island" [syn: {shipwrecked}] 2: cast off as valueless [syn: {castaway(a)}, {rejected}] n 1: a person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn: {outcast}, {pariah}] 2: a shipwrecked person [syn: {shipwreck survivor}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: 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.).
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