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leprous (iou)



leprous adjective. ME.
[Old French lepro(u)s (mod. lepreux) from late Latin leprosus, formed as LEPRA: see -OUS.]
Affected with leprosy. Also (fig.), foul, obscene; morally corrupt or corrupting. ME.
F. W. Farrar Her literature..a leprous fiction which poisoned every virtue.
b. Causing or inducing leprosy. rare. M16-E17.
c. Pertaining to, resembling, or accompanying leprosy. M17.
Covered with whitish scales; Botany = LEPROSE; pale, unhealthy-looking. E17.
Yeats You that have no living light, but dropped from a last leprous crescent of the moon.
leprously adverb E17.
leprousness noun L15.