leper

He advocated for the creation of institutions, colloquially known as leper colonies, for those afflicted with perhaps the world’s most stigmatized disease.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

"Hapcheon already had a leper colony," Mr Shim explains.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025

Chief among the rudely treated are women of childbearing age and the denizens of a leper colony outside Nazareth’s gates.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 2022

There is a moment in Warner’s novel when the bishop’s clerk journeys to a leper house and participates in an impromptu recital of Ars Nova, a new style of polyphonic music.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2021

Soon she’d be without toes and have a bandage like the leper at the level crossing.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

“The world is cursed,” says one of the lepers, “but still you find reasons to keep living.”

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

“People with AIDs were considered to be the lepers of the time,” Pieters said in a recent interview at his Silver Lake home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

"I simply hope that people who, in my opinion, have been treated rather like lepers, are now on a journey which treats them as people with a health condition."

From BBC ● May 16, 2022

In the Middle Ages, we put lepers into asylums and strapped them with bells and wooden clappers so we could hear them approach.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2020

“Marie is interested in helping lepers all over the world,” Father Torralba explains.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly