leper vs waif

leper

noun
  • Synonym of outcast: A person who is shunned, a pariah. 

  • A person who has leprosy, a person suffering from Hansen's disease. 

waif

noun
  • A person (especially a child) who is homeless and without means of support; also, a person excluded from society; an outcast. 

  • A plant introduced in a place outside its native range but is not persistently naturalized. 

  • A very thin person. 

  • Something found, especially if without an owner; something which comes along, as it were, by chance. 

  • A small flag used as a signal. 

  • Something (such as clouds or smoke) carried aloft by the wind. 

verb
  • To cast aside or reject, and thus make a waif. 

How often have the words leper and waif occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )