Definition of Leprously

1. Adverb. In a leprous way. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Leprously

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Leprously

leprosariums
leprose
leprosery
leprosied
leprosies
leprosity
leprostatic
leprostatic agents
leprosy
leprosy bacillus
leprosy test
leprosylike
leprotic
leprous
leprous neuropathy
leprously (current term)
lepry
leps
lept
lept-
lepta
leptandra
leptiform
leptin
leptins
lepto-
leptocardia
leptocardian
leptocardians
leptocephali

Literary usage of Leprously

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"Branches leprously white at the top, as well as the ... Peduncles long, branched, somewhat panicled, leprously white. ..."

2. Cistinae: The Natural Order of Cistus, Or Rock-rose; Illustrated by Coloured by Robert Sweet (1830)
"... erect, somewhat ligneous, leprously silvery ; leaves on ... oblong, blunt, leprously silvery, bearing stipules ; stipules small, sessile, acute, ..."

3. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1875)
"0 you of easy wax ! do but imagine Now the disease has left you, how leprously That office would have cling'd unto your forehead ! ..."

4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1879)
"... leaving a deathlike, or rather leprously pallid, complexion. From Seeker's antecedents, his rise to the Primacy could have been little anticipated, ..."

5. Poetry as a Representative Art: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1899)
"... Rohan: a ghost whose long hair coiled round and stifled the fair creations of his dreams, and whose white garments swept leprously into his sunlight. ..."

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