Leprous

Quick meaning: Leprous is an adjective meaning Of or relating to one of the diseases known as leprosy.

Meaning

Of or relating to one of the diseases known as leprosy.

More Meanings

1. Infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy.
2. Similar to leprosy or its symptoms.
3. Having the appearance of the skin of one infected with leprosy; flaking, peeling, scabby, scurfy.
4. (figuratively, archaic) Immoral, or corrupted or tainted in some manner; also, ostracized, shunned.
5. (alchemy, historical) Of gold or other metals: contaminated with other substances; impure.
6. (botany, archaic) Synonym of leprose (“covered with thin scurfy scales, scaly-looking”).
7. (obsolete) Causing leprosy or a disease resembling it.

Example Sentences

My whole Life is so leprous, it infects All my Repentance: I wou’d buy your Pardon Though at the highest Set, even with my Life:

‘If they die,’ he said, ‘the cell shall be their tomb. They were put there to die, and be lost. The cell is leprous. Do you understand?’

And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

And the Lord said furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put his hand into his bosom: and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow.

Synonyms for leprous

Depending on context, synonyms include lepered, leproid, leprotic, lepric, lepromatic, lepromatous.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include leaprous, leprotic, leprological, lepromatous, lepromatoid, leishmanial.

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