leper
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 →
2) (Bible) In Bible times lepers had to live apart and call out «Unclean!»; Jesus touched and healed lepers. tree →
3) (figurative) A person that others avoid or reject: «He was treated like a leper.» tree →
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 →
- Only one leper came back to thank Jesus. tree →
- Jesus touched the leper, and he was healed. tree →
- In old times lepers lived outside the town. tree →
- After the argument he felt like a leper at school. tree →
- Father Damien worked in a leper colony. tree →
- 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 →
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.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «leper» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.