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单词 casteless
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castelessadj.n.

Brit. /ˈkɑːstləs/, /ˈkastləs/, U.S. /ˈkæstləs/
Forms: 1800s castless, 1800s– casteless.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: caste n., -less suffix.
Etymology: < caste n. + -less suffix.
1. Of a person or group: that does not belong to a caste (chiefly in sense 2a); spec. (chiefly in South Asian contexts, and frequently with negative connotations) that belongs to a group considered to be outside the four castes of the varna system (cf. Dalit n., outcaste adj., Scheduled Caste n. at scheduled adj. Compounds); (also) that has been removed from a caste or has renounced caste affiliation. Also (and in earliest use) as n. (with the and plural agreement): casteless people collectively.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > outcast or untouchable > [adjective]
unclassed1781
casteless1821
outcaste1838
classless1878
1821 T. Medwin Sketches in Hindoostan 52 This to his Durra rushed on every side All castes, and sects, in one wide whelming tide... Then too the Castless.
1830 Derwentwater II. xxx. 254 The reader..may hardly have been prepared to find him banded with a casteless vagabond like Heddon, in an affair so heinous as that just described.
1857 Morning Post 9 Oct. 6/3 It is not necessary to describe more particularly the different castes and their subdivisions; nor need we add to what we formerly said regarding the casteless Hindoos.
1898 Daily News 15 Aug. 6/2 Reformed casteless Hindoos.
1964 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 23 94 Regardless of caste, performers..are accorded a measure of respect which recalls that given to the sanyasi, who is casteless by definition.
2009 Independent 15 Oct. 38/3 Under Hinduism there are four varnas—caste groupings—of which shudra is the lowest, though beneath the four varnas come the casteless Dalits or Untouchables.
2. Of a society, nation, etc.: that does not have a caste system; not bound by a rigidly hierarchical or stratified social structure; that does not observe the rules of caste.
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1862 J. Fergusson Hist. Mod. Styles Archit. App. i. 503 The Turanian race are absolutely casteless; no hereditary nobility, no caste of priests ever existed among them.
1906 Macmillan's Mag. July 714 While he [sc. the Maharajah of Travancore] journeyed over the black water to distant, and to them casteless and almost godless, Britain.
2016 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 6 Mar. We have not made any serious attempt to move in the direction of creating a casteless society.

Derivatives

ˈcastelessness n.
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1902 Calcutta Rev. 114 283 His pronouncement about the castelessness of the shaistraic [i.e. shastraic] teaching.
1977 V. S. Naipaul India: Wounded Civilization i. i. 30 A foreign marriage is seldom a positive act... It leads to castelessness, the loss of community, the loss of a place in the world.
2016 S. Dickey Living Class in Urban India iii. 67 While for some people my castelessness makes me below-caste, this had never been the case with people of scheduled castes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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