What's the difference between leper and pariah?

Leper


Definition:

  • (n.) A person affected with leprosy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Supporting this opinion, the author reports his observations at Madagascar, where no leper of the leper-houses of Madascar center, a plague focus still to-day but very active between 1922 and 1936, contracted plague.
  • (2) The reason is that both are key members of David Cameron's Eurosceptic caucus in the European parliament and the sort of people whom David Miliband, the foreign secretary, says make him sick: political lepers who should not be seen in civilised company because of their views on the second world war.
  • (3) He felt, he said later, “like the representative of a leper colony attending the annual garden party of a colonial governor”.
  • (4) The data obtained should be considered during therapy of lepers to predict and control an unfavorable complication like specific polyneuritis.
  • (5) This rapid examination is particularly valid during neurologic investigation of the hand in lepers in countries where this disease is endemic, and it forms part of the 10 tests that the author has selected for exploration, within 2 or 3 minutes, in a standing patient, of the facial, ulnar, median, superficial peroneal and posterior tibial nerves.
  • (6) The relevance of these findings to previous studies of the children of lepers in India is discussed.
  • (7) Black and Morgan claimed they were treated like lepers as a result of their sexuality.
  • (8) He thinks that lepers' death was secondary to that of the monks who, at this time, cared for these outcases, and thanks to their self-sacrifice permitted these lepers' survival.
  • (9) He looked out at the admiring eyes trained on him on Sunday night (the room was considerably more rammed than it had been eight years previously) before heading to the champions' dinner in a flash London hotel he would probably avoid as if it were a leper colony on any other occasion, and he said thanks.
  • (10) A study of 260 male patients in the Alexandria leper colony showed that 15% of them had uni- or bilateral perception deafness.
  • (11) "It is like we were treated as lepers in the worst possible way."
  • (12) The highest prevalences were observed in female prostitutes (7.4%), patients with neurologic syndromes (5.8%), and lepers (13.7%).
  • (13) It is both the old, sadly familiar experience of plague and disease, of lepers isolated as unclean, of smallpox decimating the American Indians, of a Black Death sweeping medieval Europe, of the 1918 influenza.
  • (14) Lemur macaco macaco from Ambanja region was found polyparasitized by four different species of Plasmodium: --Plasmodium coulangesi recently described by lepers et al.
  • (15) The monks were more exposed to contagion; obliged by their vocation and by pope's command to help the dyings and to give them sacraments, they were obliged to leave lepers to their fate.
  • (16) He grew up in the village of Green Hill Quarry near the Yila Mission, an American Baptist mission hospital and leper colony, according to a lifelong friend and former neighbor, Thomas Kwenah.
  • (17) The stigma surrounding it contributed, throughout the times, to make the "leper" identified as someone who brought with him danger and death, justifying discriminatory procedures.
  • (18) The establishment, instead, of an isolated leper colony at the run-down plantation at Carville, 85 miles up-river, was the result of community indifference, misunderstanding of the nature of the disease, and expected depreciation of property values.
  • (19) Advice have been taken exactly in the leper villages in which the attendance rate is of 98%; this rate varies between 47 to 70% in the all-purpose dispensaries.
  • (20) The author disproves the opinion of those who think that lepers died from plague.

Pariah


Definition:

  • (n.) One of an aboriginal people of Southern India, regarded by the four castes of the Hindoos as of very low grade. They are usually the serfs of the Sudra agriculturalists. See Caste.
  • (n.) An outcast; one despised by society.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He will sell his country's transition from international pariah to poster boy for democratic change, trade and investment.
  • (2) The problem is that your typical BNP member is a social pariah who is more into pornography than starting a family," he said.
  • (3) It was only after a combination of heavy taxation (price), heavy legislation (banning smoking in public places), and heavy propaganda (warnings on packets; an effective, sustained anti-smoking advertising campaign; and most crucially, education in schools) was brought to bear on a resistant tobacco industry that smoking became a pariah activity for a new generation of potential consumers, and real, lasting change took place.
  • (4) The mistake in most international crises is to over-personalise the issue by making a pariah of the wicked man and his corrupt family at the top and thinking that, once they go, all problems will easily be solved.
  • (5) "There's so many ways you could do Netflix better using BitTorrent, and the reason they haven't done it is because, in their initial dealings with Hollywood, BitTorrent was the pariah they had to beat.
  • (6) Sterling became a national pariah over the weekend after the news site TMZ posted a 10-minute recording of what it said was a 9 April conversation he had with his girlfriend, Vanessa Stiviano, 38.
  • (7) Yet instead of hastily concluding that it would cost nothing to treat a financially weak Russia as a complete pariah, the time may have come for a burst of diplomatic creativity.
  • (8) All these elements are not present at the moment ..." In nine months, Brown has gone from being popular - the man who saved Britain from financial meltdown - to a pariah.
  • (9) Critics say this would be akin to apartheid and make Israel a pariah state.
  • (10) Defour’s status at his former club fell to pariah and caused a graphic banner to be unfurled when he returned to the Stade Maurice Dufrasne in Anderlecht colours.
  • (11) In his early years in power Bashir oversaw the transformation of Sudan into a radical Islamic pariah state that provided a refuge for the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden.
  • (12) "He is now three days into a prison sentence and, probably worse than all of that, he has managed to achieve a notoriety and perhaps pariah status."
  • (13) Another serious issue is how to institutionalize and hospitalize poor and minority AIDS victims without turning the wards and hospitals into pariah institutions.
  • (14) The Zionist Union offers a clear alternative to a policy which has not only failed to bring security but is also eroding the foundations of Israeli democracy and turning the country into an international pariah.
  • (15) The suspicion is that the striker will be greeted in his homeland as a returning hero rather than a pariah whose latest spasm of indiscipline has most likely wrecked Uruguay’s chances at this World Cup .
  • (16) Barack Obama has warned North Korea that the United States "will not hesitate to use our military might" to defend allies, condemning the actions of "a pariah state that would rather starve its people than feed their hopes and dreams" and characterising the 38th parallel dividing the two Koreas as "freedom's frontier".
  • (17) Syria’s first lady is a pariah figure in the international community and nobody disputes that her husband’s government is responsible for the forced displacement, injury and vulnerability of millions of people within the country.
  • (18) By then, of course, Rich and his business partner, Pincus 'Pinky' Green, had long since fled to Zug, and were well on their way to making the money back through a series of sanctions-busting oil shipments to South Africa and other 'pariah' states.
  • (19) Others suggest that, ironically, Koussa may have become tainted in Gaddafi circles by virtue of his success in opening up contacts with western intelligence agencies, with whom he negotiated Libya's transformation from pariah status in the last decade.
  • (20) Not everybody in the Republican party has entirely forgotten or forgiven the Iraq and Afghan wars that have made Blair and president George W Bush such pariahs on the international stage, but the party’s private retreat is perhaps one of the last major political arenas where an audience is prepared to overlook that uncomfortable chapter.

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