Leprous Definition

lĕprəs
adjective
Having leprosy.
Webster's New World
Of or like leprosy.
Webster's New World
Having or consisting of loose, scurfy scales.
American Heritage Medicine

Leprose.

Webster's New World

Origin of Leprous

  • Old French leprous, lepros, (French lépreux), from Latin leprosus, from lepra, leprae, leprosy. See also leper.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English leprus from Old French lepros from Late Latin leprōsus from lepra leprosy leper

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Leprous Sentence Examples

  • They are indeed exceedingly beautiful; and yet the surrounding waste of hills is chiefly a barren repetition of sun-cracked crags and ridges with parched and withered valleys intersecting them, where a trickle of salt water leaves a white and leprous streak amongst the faded tamarisk or the yellow stalks of last season's grass.

  • St James's Palace, at the north side of St James's Park, was acquired and rebuilt by Henry VIII., having been formerly a hospital founded in the 12th century for leprous maidens.

  • In 1907-1908 a home for non-leprous boys of leprous parents was established at Honolulu.

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Words Starting With

LLELEP

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SUSOUS

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