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# leper

«leper» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who has leprosy, an illness of the skin and nerves** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a leper, lepers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who has leprosy, an illness of the skin and nerves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#m1)

2) (Bible) In Bible times lepers had to live apart and call out «Unclean!»; Jesus touched and healed lepers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#m2)

3) (figurative) A person that others avoid or reject: «He was treated like a leper.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In religion lessons Jesus healing ten lepers, with only one coming back to say thank you, teaches gratitude; touching the leper shows compassion for outcasts. Today people prefer to say «a person with leprosy», because «leper» can be hurtful. Phrases: «treated like a leper», «the ten lepers», «leper colony».

### examples

- Jesus healed ten lepers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#x1)
- Only one leper came back to thank Jesus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#x2)
- Jesus touched the leper, and he was healed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#x3)
- In old times lepers lived outside the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#x4)
- After the argument he felt like a leper at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#x5)
- Father Damien worked in a leper colony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#x6)
- This king was a leper, and all his doctors had been unable to cure him, when a very clever physician came to his court. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/#x7)

### note

Countable. The illness is leprosy. Today «a person with leprosy» is kinder and more correct. Do not confuse with «leopard» (big spotted cat).

### In the corpora

- [This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.371/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «leper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/leper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.