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Synonyms for leper

Grammar : Noun
Spell : lep-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɛp ər

Définition of leper

Origin :
  • "one afflicted with leprosy," late 14c., from Late Latin lepra, from Greek lepra "leprosy," from fem. of lepros (adj.) "scaly," from leops "a scale," related to lepein "to peel," from lopos "a peel," from PIE root *lep- "to peel, scale" (see leaf (n.)). Originally the word for the disease itself (mid-13c.); because of the -er ending it came to mean "person with leprosy," so leprosy was coined 16c. from adjective leprous.
  • noun pariah
Example sentences :
  • The leper himself would never have dreamed of his touching him.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Cass, the teller, certainly shunned him as he would a leper.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • Money is a disease that he spreads when he walks, like the scales that fall from a leper.
  • Extract from : « The Flockmaster of Poison Creek » by George W. Ogden
  • No; he must himself warn Dom Diego that he was a leper—a pariah.
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • Ay, but the fault was theirs who drove him to it, leaving him only a leper's life.
  • Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill
  • When you look at yourself in the glass you see the typical appearance of the leper.
  • Extract from : « The Moon and Sixpence » by W. Somerset Maugham
  • It seemed as if she was regarding me almost with horror, as if I were a sort of a leper.
  • Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service
  • "I thought we had done with the leper," cried Flambeau, and spat on the road.
  • Extract from : « The Innocence of Father Brown » by G. K. Chesterton
  • There stands a man in the prime of life, but a leper, eaten away with sores.
  • Extract from : « From Pole to Pole » by Sven Anders Hedin
  • All the people I really want to know go by on the other side as if I were a leper.
  • Extract from : « The Tyranny of the Dark » by Hamlin Garland

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