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/stˈɪgmətˌaɪz/ Listen

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Stigmatize v. t. (past & past part. stigmatized; pres. part. stigmatizing)

To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. "That... hold out both their ears with such delight and ravishment, to be stigmatized and bored through in witness of their own voluntary and beloved baseness."

To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy. "To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized."

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Etymology of 'Stigmatize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stigmatize" Quotes from Famous Books

... their resentments are so cruelly implacable, and contain such a mixture of perfidy, that, in my opinion, they are very unfit subjects for comedy, whose province it is, rather to ridicule folly than to stigmatize such ...

— Travels Through France and Italy • Tobias Smollett

... his Epistle to the Romans, present probably, as fair an example as could be desired of what is sometimes called "Accommodation." To say the truth, I know not an instance of what, in any uninspired writing, I should have been myself more inclined to stigmatize as such. The Apostle begins an affectionate remonstrance with his countrymen by declaring that they "did not understand the Righteousness of GOD;" (that is, the Divine method whereby GOD wills that we shall be made righteous, by faith in CHRIST;) but desired to set up (stsai) ...

— Inspiration and Interpretation - Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford • John Burgon

... may laugh; but I repeat that I am tortured with remorse! And for what do you suppose? For those acts of self-preservation that fanatics and fools would stigmatize as crimes? No, my good fellow, no! ...

— Hidden Hand • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

... never has undergone any change more than the other nine, and that there is no other weekly sabbath recorded or intimated in the old and new testaments. If you will follow such downright infidelity as is taught in all the second advent papers respecting God's holy sabbath, and still continue to stigmatize the holy law of God, how can you expect to be treated otherwise than the rebellious house of Israel, and be made to feel in a very little while from this, all the horrors of a guilty conscience, urging you to do that which you now detest and abhor: ...

— A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath • Joseph Bates

... she replied, with all the emphasis of scorn. "With what base name, sir, does your boldness stigmatize the—the—the—" She hesitated, dropped her tone of scorn, looked down, and was confused and silent; for she recollected what fatal consequences might attend her completing the sentence with "the Countess of Leicester," which were the words that had naturally suggested themselves. ...

— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott

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