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Meanings of leper in English

Portuguese
leprosa

A person afflicted with leprosy.

        leprosa
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        Examples for "lazar"
        Examples for "lazar"
        1
        They correspond to the lepers who thronged the lazar houses of the Middle Ages.
        In Darkest England, and the Way Out
        2
        Pew, I push it away like a lazar beam coming out of my belly button.
        Wired
        3
        A lazar house draws him on, and he needs must reach it, weak and ill-fed though he is!
        London's Underworld
        4
        Mrs. Daniel M. Lazar is chairman of PS 158's program this year.
        The new yorker
        5
        Only days later, George got a call from his agent, Swifty Lazar.
        Fifth avenue, 5 a.m.: audrey hepburn, breakfast at tiffany's, an...
        Usage of leper in English
        1
        The same rogues also destroyed the building site for the leper house.
        The hangman's daughter
        2
        Jesus was now in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper.
        The Gospel of Matthew for Readers
        3
        The construction of a leper house had at first upset those plans.
        The hangman's daughter
        4
        In 1844, the New Brunswick government turned Sheldrake into a leper colony.
        Bones to Ashes
        5
        The way it is situated makes it ideal for a leper house.
        The hangman's daughter
        6
        In the meantime they had reached the foundation of the leper house.
        The hangman's daughter
        7
        Through Him the leper recovered from the leprosy of perversity and ignorance.
        Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
        8
        We cannot keep a leper in the house of a rich man.
        Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
        9
        He repented very much the kindness he had shown the old leper.
        Filipino Popular Tales
        10
        This was the reason for incorporating the leper gallery in the design.
        The Irish Times
        11
        He laid His hand on the loathsome leper from whom all shrank.
        From Jest to Earnest
        12
        One can only say that the whole landscape was like a leper.
        The New Jerusalem
        13
        He give them leper the Bible, and sometime he go read them.
        Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
        14
        And as soon as Jesus had said that, the leper was well.
        The Good Shepherd: A Life of Christ for Children
        15
        At last it dawned upon his mind that he was a leper.
        Architects of Fate; Or, Steps to Success and Power
        16
        It will be enough for me to see him heal one leper.
        Ben-Hur
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        Translations for leper
        Portuguese
        leprosaleproso
        Leper through the time
        Leper across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common
        United States of America
        Less common