leprous
/ˈlɛprəs
/adjective
1Suffering from leprosy.By 724 BC the leprous king Uzziah of Judah had not been seen for a while and finally in that year he died....
- By all means be appalled by the leprous beggars, but don't allow this to blind you to the rich educational diversity the Third World has to offer.
- Founded as a hospital by Eudo the Steward, to support four leprous residents, its chapel became a parish church and was able to survive the Dissolution.
1.1Relating to or resembling leprosy: leprous growths...
- When I nursed in a clinic near Bombay, a small girl, shielding all her leprous sores, crept inside the door.
- The Lazarus of the parable appears on crutches with dogs licking his leprous sores, a citation from Luke.
- While leprous signs wracked the entire body, notably disfiguring the face, making public a private sin, it was on the genitals that the first signs of syphilis would appear.
Origin
Middle English: via Old French from late Latin leprosus, from Latin lepra 'scaly' (see leper).
- late-night
- latensification
- latent
- latent ambiguity
- latent caloric
- latent fingerprint
- latent function
- latent heat
- latent homosexuality
- latent image
- latent learning
- latently
- latentness
- latent period
- latent print
- latent root
- latent virus
- late-onset
- late-picked
- later
- -later
- laterad
- lateral
- lateral branch
- lateral control