Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

leprosie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lep-rosie
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete spelling of leprosy.

Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Wheras young men also with hauntynge of whores (as it is dayly seene) catche the newe leprosie, nowe otherwyse named Jobs agew, and some cal it the scabbes of Naples, throughe"
"As if to cure a Leprosie, a man should bathe himself with the warme blood of a murthered Child: So in the Church, some errors may be dissimuled with lesse inconvenience, then can be discover'd."
"Amongst other diseases the Leprosie was one epidemicall infection which tainted the Pilgrimes coming thither."

Usage

Inflected Forms

leprosies (plural)

Questions

What does leprosie mean?: Obsolete spelling of leprosy.

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