The word "leprous" is used to describe someone or something that has leprosy, which is a severe infectious disease. It typically causes skin sores, nerve damage, and can lead to disabilities if left untreated.
Sentences with «leprous»
Jesus then went on to cherry - pick a text about how God sent Elijah only to widowed, Gentile women and leprous enemy soldiers (two of the people Jews hated most), to show that these are types of people God is inviting into His Kingdom. (redeeminggod.com)
So even though we knew we could not become leprous, it was one of the saddest things I think I've ever seen. (redeeminggod.com)
It is in such a heroic act that the elite affirms itself; an act endowed with an axial, communicative, and transsocial value, an act which is capable of raising the mass, of giving value to interested acts, as «in a series» (profitable virtues, mercenary acts, mediocre appetites, leprous sins). (religion-online.org)