leprous
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Is leprous a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (figuratively, archaic) Immoral, or corrupted or tainted in some manner; also, ostracized, shunned.Examples: "My whole Life is so leprous, it infects All my Repentance: I wou’d buy your Pardon Though at the highest Set, even with my Life:"; "And ſpeckl'd Vanity / Will ſicken ſoon and die, / And leprous ſin will melt from earthly mould, […]"archaicfiguratively
2. (alchemy, historical) Of gold or other metals: contaminated with other substances; impure.historical
3. (botany, archaic) Synonym of leprose (“covered with thin scurfy scales, scaly-looking”).Synonyms: leprosearchaic
4. (obsolete) Causing leprosy or a disease resembling it.Examples: "Thy vncle came, with iuyce of Hebona, / In a viall, and through the porches of my eares / Did powre the leaprous diſtilment, whoſe effect / Hold ſuch an enmitie with blood of man, […]"obsolete
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