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/stˈɪgmətˌaɪz/ Listen

verb

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

... the striking figure contained in the last line, not however as here to picture the worthlessness of human life in general, but to stigmatize the Germans, whom Hyperion describes as "dumpf und harmonielos, wie die Scherben ...

— Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry • Wilhelm Alfred Braun

... extraordinary example of erosion is, of course, the chasm of the Grand Canyon proper, which, were the missing strata restored to the adjacent plateau, would be sixteen thousand feet deep. The layman is apt to stigmatize such an assertion as a vagary of theorists, and until the argument has been heard it does seem incredible that water should have carved such a trough in solid rock. It is easier for the imagination to conceive it as a work of violence, a sudden rending ...

— The Life Radiant • Lilian Whiting

... are a great many teachers in our country who make their business a mere dull and formal routine, through which they plod on, month after month, and year after year, without variety or change, and who are inclined to stigmatize with the appellation of idle scheming all plans, of whatever kind, to give variety or interest to the exercises of the school. Now whatever may be said in this chapter against unnecessary innovation and ...

— The Teacher • Jacob Abbott

... thus spoke of the hand-to-hand strifes, which I stigmatize as murderous. 'The animosity,' said he, 'between the Whigs and Tories renders their situation truly deplorable. The Whigs seem determined to extirpate the Tories, and the Tories the Whigs. Some thousands have ...

— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Edgerton Ryerson

... hail, Religion! maid divine! Pardon a muse sae mean as mine, Who in her rough imperfect line, Thus daurs to name thee; To stigmatize false friends of thine ...

— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham

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