Peripsema denotes a person portrayed as the world's refuse in a statement of public contempt.

The sole attested use presents the term as a designation of extreme public contempt: those who are defamed and plead are described as the world's garbage and the scum of all things.

1. A contemptuous designation of social refuse · dominant

   In 1 Corinthians 4:13, the nominative singular neuter form occurs in the statement that those defamed and pleading became “the garbage of the world” and “the scum of all things.” The verse presents the term within a self-description of being treated with profound contempt.

   1 Corinthians 4:13

In the Anselm Project Bible: In 1 Corinthians 4:13, the APB presents the clause with “the garbage of the world” and “the scum of all things.” The term's precise correspondence to either expression cannot be isolated.