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Definition

chronic bacterial disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts

Hundreds of thousands of new cases of leprosy are contracted each year; though it is rare in developed countries.

That momentary happiness had been smitten with a blight, a leprosy; Stephen thought more lightly of her than he did of Lucy.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
That won't do, says the leper, I barely have a hand left with the leprosy and I can't hold on and blow into your hand.
Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
They are used to gunfire and leprosy but not true love.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
And even then it's got to be to call your mother to say that the school nurse has just diagnosed leprosy or something.
Paul Zindel -- The Pigman
I know I am like a leprosy.
John Steinbeck -- The Pearl
Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.
Lew Wallace -- Ben Hur
He believed himself to be rotting with a leprosy.
Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
During this time, leprosy was widespread on all the islands.
Bethany Hamilton -- Soul Surfer
But poverty may be as bad as leprosy, if it divides us from what we most care for.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
When he did, the rose-tan of his cheek looked struck as by white leprosy.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
He donated money to orphanages and leprosy clinics.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
The royal Confessor was endowed by heaven with power to cleanse the ulcers of the body, but only God himself can cure the leprosy of the soul.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt,— Whom leprosy o'ertake!
William Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra
But the most terrible of the afflictions were men and women with leprosy.
Amy Tan -- The Joy Luck Club
Cecily repeats, making the word sound like leprosy or syphilis.
Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
One character fails to recover health but nearly wins the lottery, while another, although not cured of leprosy, sprouts sunflowers from his sores.
Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
Park could tell her that he had lice and leprosy and parasitic worms living in his mouth, and she would still put on fresh ChapStick.
Rainbow Rowell -- Eleanor & Park
If he could have infected the whole lot of them with leprosy or syphilis, how gladly he would have done so!
George Orwell -- 1984
He was a leper, and the polite name for leprosy was "the white skin."
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

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