Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Affected or tainted with leprosy.
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- adjective archaic Affected or tainted with
leprosy .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Soothe me of those rotten diseases I caught in Thai raw eyes, lepered feet, HIV.
WOMAN DISPOSED OF Lucien Quincy Senna 2011
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Jesus fell in love with them at first sight, as they did with him, which was lucky, because his quarters were in the actually stables along side his noble four lepered friends.
A Spaniard in the Works John Lennon 2000
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Jesus fell in love with them at first sight, as they did with him, which was lucky, because his quarters were in the actually stables along side his noble four lepered friends.
A Spaniard In The Works Lennon, John, 1940-1980 1965
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Nights in the swamp were dark and star-lepered-our island was thirty-odd miles off the grid of mainland lights-and although your naked eye could easily find the ball of Venus and the sapphire hairs of the Pleiades, our mother's body was just lines, a smudge against the palm trees.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Nights in the swamp were dark and star-lepered-our island was thirty-odd miles off the grid of mainland lights-and although your naked eye could easily find the ball of Venus and the sapphire hairs of the Pleiades, our mother's body was just lines, a smudge against the palm trees.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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