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Definition of Leprously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leprously
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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