leper Definition
leper (lep′ər)
noun
- a person having leprosy
- a person to be shunned or ostracized, as because of the danger of moral contamination
Etymology: ME lepre, leprosy < OFr < LL lepra (L leprae, pl.) < Gr < lepros, rough, scaly < lepein, to peel < IE base *lep-, to peel off, scale > OE læfer, rush, reed
leper Synonyms
leper Usage Examples
Possessives
- bell: That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
- cleansing: Two sparrows were sold for a farthing, and no more was needed for the leper's cleansing.
Preposition: as
white: And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow " .
Converse of object
- cleanse: His " I will " cleansed the leper; the maimed were made whole.
- heal: Jesus was asking them to do what a healed leper would do.
- touch: The first is that by touching the leper Jesus himself breaks the law.
- come: And behold, there came a leper and worshiped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
- become: As the smoker has become a pariah, sufferers from lung cancer have become the lepers of the twenty-first century.
- embrace: Yet to embrace the leper can be the way of holiness.
Adjective modifier
- many: Over the course of his three-year ministry, Jesus healed many lepers, cast out many demons, and had dinner with many people.
- social: At the end of the event I have rarely felt anymore like a social leper.
- poor: Oh what a wonderful thing is this, that the King of all kings talketh here most familiarly with a poor wretched leper!
- European: Petition from European lepers, 8 May 1908, Health Branch, CA, CO 8053.
- spiritual: Do you stand before God as a spiritual leper?
Modifies a noun
- colony: The leper colony does not have to be taken literally.
- hospital: The nearest leper hospital lay outside St Stephen's Gate.
- asylum: The leper asylum in Almora was one of the oldest institutions of its kind in India ( Lewis, 1960 ).
- chapel: Yet the leper chapel on the Cowley Road has claim to be a Franciscan place for all who love SSF.
- institution: Leper Institutions tended to be sited just outside the town walls.
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