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leper
[ lep-er ]
noun
- a person who has leprosy.
- a person who has been rejected or ostracized for unacceptable behavior, opinions, character, or the like; anathema; outcast.
leper
/ ˈlɛpə /
noun
- a person who has leprosy
- derogatory.a person who is ignored or despised
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Word History and Origins
Origin of leper1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of leper1
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Example Sentences
After being forced to fly next to this leper, their disgust is palpable.
I read a little more than they did, so I could say, “Touch me not, leper!”
On the Mabolo road there is a Leper Hospital, and the ruins of a partly well-built jail which was never completed.
He may wash his hands in bichloride solution after anointing a leper, but it is scarcely necessary to do even that.
And, in fact, this poor Nabob was a leper, his millions from the East weighing on him like some terrible and mysterious disease.
Skeat postulates a mute vowel by deriving lazar or leper from Eleazer—He whom God assists.
Mlle. Crystal drew away her skirts from me as if I were a leper.
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