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Definition of Lepers
1. leper [n] - See also: leper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lepers
Literary usage of Lepers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1891)
"Laws against lepers. The ordinance of 21 Edward III. (1346) against the harbouring
of lepers in London is the only one of the kind (so far as I know) in ..."
2. The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London (1911)
"Nor did we wear long, gauntleted gloves and keep apart from the lepers. On the
contrary, we mingled freely with them, and before we left, knew scores of ..."
3. The Nineteenth Century (1889)
"I could see a little crowd of lepers and lepers' friends waiting there. ' 0 my
husband! ... Thirteen lepers got into the boat and were rowed to the steamer. ..."
4. Christian Missions and Social Progress: A Sociological Study of Foreign Missions by James Shepard Dennis (1899)
"Out of 135 lepers within its doors, 55 are Christians. ... The buildings are
provided by the Mission to lepers, and many of the eighty-one inmates are ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1911)
"Woch., 1911, xxxvii, 302) was the first to note that the serum of lepers is often
... In lepers, then, Eliasberg finds that the blood serum contains no ..."
6. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503: The Voyages of the Northmen by Julius E. Olson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1906)
"To this island come all the lepers of Portugal to be cured and there are not more
... Here he relates how the lepers came there to be cured because of the ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"lepers AT THE CAPE: WANTED, A FATHER DAMIEN. CORRESPONDENCE AND EDITORIAL COMMENTS.
THE exposure of the horrors of the Robben Island lepers in our last ..."
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