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leper

[ lep-er ]

noun

  1. a person who has leprosy.
  2. a person who has been rejected or ostracized for unacceptable behavior, opinions, character, or the like; anathema; outcast.


leper

/ ˈlɛpə /

noun

  1. a person who has leprosy
  2. derogatory.
    a person who is ignored or despised


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Usage

Rather than talking about a leper or lepers , it is better to talk about a person with leprosy and people with leprosy

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Word History and Origins

Origin of leper1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English lepre “leprosy,” from Latin lepra, from Greek lépra, noun use of feminine of leprós “scaly,” akin to lépos “scale,” lépein “to peel”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of leper1

C14: via Late Latin from Greek lepra, noun use of lepros scaly, from lepein to peel

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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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