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Webster 1913 Edition
Leprous
Lep′rous
(-rūs)
, Adj.
1.
Infected with leprosy; pertaining to or resembling leprosy.
“His hand was leprous as snow.” Ex. iv. 6.
2.
(Nat. Hist.)
Leprose.
– Lep′rous-ly
, adv.
Lep′rous-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Leprous
LEP'ROUS
,Adj.
His hand was leprous as snow. Ex. 4.
Definition 2024
leprous
leprous
English
Adjective
leprous (comparative more leprous, superlative most leprous)
- Relating to or infected with one of the diseases known as leprosy.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Numbers 12:10,
- 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.
- 1748, Philip Luckombe, A Tour Through Ireland, London: T. Lowndes & Son, 1783, Journey the Fourth, p. 324,
- […] a dissenting minister […] came to this well, over-run with leprous eruptions on the skin, which had rendered his joints so rigid, that he could neither hold his bridle, nor feed himself […]
- 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Book Six, Chapter 1,
- ‘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?’
- 1882, Oscar Wilde, “The English Renaissance of Art,” in Essays and Lectures, London: Methuen & Co., 4th edition, 1913,
- Nor shall the art which you and I need be merely a purple robe woven by a slave and thrown over the whitened body of some leprous king to adorn or to conceal the sin of his luxury, but rather shall it be the noble and beautiful expression of a people’s noble and beautiful life.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Numbers 12:10,
- (archaic) Morally infectious or infected.
- 1619, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Maid’s Tragedy, Act IV, Scene 1,
- 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:
- 1645, John Milton, On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity,
- And speckled Vanity
- Will sicken soon and die,
- And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould;
- 1619, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Maid’s Tragedy, Act IV, Scene 1,
- Appearing decayed, having the appearance of infection by leprosy.
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Prologue,
- And why, except that it had moved everywhere with them and they regarded it as one of their possessions, had they kept the hatrack, its glass now leprous, most of its hooks broken, its woodwork ugly with painting-over?
- 1974, “Drab Cab Goes Fab,” Time, 8 April, 1974,
- With little room to maneuver or park private cars, New Yorkers are more desperately dependent on taxis than any other city dwellers in the world. And the thousands of cabs that they ride are among the world's sleaziest: cigarette butts and paper coffee cups on the floor, dirty windows, leprous upholstery, chewed gum and sticky candy wrappers on ripped seats, and jagged metal protrusions on the doors waiting to savage the clothing of entering or departing passengers.
- 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Prologue,
Quotations
- For usage examples of this term, see Citations:leprous.
Translations
relating to leprosy
References
- leprous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
Old French
Adjective
leprous m (oblique and nominative feminine singular leprouse)
- leprous; having leprosy
Declension
Declension of leprous
Number | Case | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Subject | leprous | leprouse | leprous |
Oblique | leprous | leprouse | leprous | |
Plural | Subject | leprous | leprouses | leprous |
Oblique | leprous | leprouses | leprous |
Noun
leprous m
- a leper