The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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This disease itself is in more need of his curing hand than all the leprosies of Judaea and Samaria.
From Miracles of Our Lord by George MacDonald
"Great Lord!" answered the charioteer, "this comes In many forms to all men; griefs and wounds, Sickness and tetters, palsies, leprosies, Hot fevers, watery wastings, issues, blains Befall all flesh and enter everywhere."
From The Light of Asia by Sir Edwin Arnold
Crutches, and itches, and leprosies, and ulcers, and gangrenes, and running sores, praise ye the Lord, for to-night ye have saved our Archbishop! 1ST BEGGAR.
From Becket and other plays by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
R. José said, “all seas may purify in flowing, but they are disallowed for issues, and leprosies, and for purifying with them the water of the ashes of the red heifer.”
From Hebrew Literature by Epiphanius Wilson
Children with eye-disease, and adults with leprosies more terrible than Naaman's jostled each other in the mean streets.
From Caught by the Turks by Francis Yeats-Brown
