LEPER


Meaning of LEPER in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

They treated me like some kind of leper .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Armies that ran out of rocks for their catapults would sometimes lob live lepers into besieged towns to scare the inhabitants.

Athelstan caught a glimpse of the two lepers, shrouded in their hoods near the charnel house.

Despite evidence in the 40s that leprosy was rarely contagious and easily treated, lepers were banished to remote islands until 1996.

I know of cases where the law has been violated by one jurisdiction shifting a leper into another.

In Hawaii lepers were first sent to Molokai as colonists, not as patients.

She then gave the dairy product to a leper , whose affliction immediately disappeared.

Suppose it were announced that there were more than a million lepers among our people.

The Disciples would surely have tried to stop the leper coming close.

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