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
White phlegm, which is dangerous if kept in, by reason of the air bubbles, is not equally dangerous if able to escape through the pores, although it variegates the body, generating diverse kinds of leprosies.
From Timaeus by Benjamin Jowett
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
“The water in them is disallowed for issues and leprosies, or to purify with it as with the water of the ashes of the heifer, since it is not filled in a vessel.”
From Hebrew Literature by Epiphanius Wilson
