Leper
['lepə] or ['lɛpɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a pariah who is avoided by others.
(noun.) a person afflicted with leprosy.
Checker: Sophia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A person affected with leprosy.
Edited by Jason
Definition
n. one affected with leprosy.—adjs. Lep′erous (Shak.) Lep′rous.
Editor: Wendell
Examples
- He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- My hook and gloves are like the St. Lazarus rattle of the leper, warning the world to get out of the way of a sight that would sadden them. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- And yet they will all feel warranted in making a wide space between me and them, as if I were a leper! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Her husband developed some hateful qualities; or shall we say that he contracted some loathsome disease, and became a leper or an imbecile? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Robert Jordan, when he put his hand out, expected that it would be like grasping something reptilian or touching a leper. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Typist: Mason