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Stigmatize   /stˈɪgmətˌaɪz/   Listen
Stigmatize

verb
(past & past part. stigmatized; pres. part. stigmatizing)
1.
To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful.  Synonyms: brand, denounce, mark, stigmatise.  "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock"
2.
Mark with a stigma or stigmata.  Synonym: stigmatise.






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"Stigmatize" Quotes from Famous Books



... on diet and digestion, we might gather the alarming information that nearly every thing we eat is pernicious. Far be it from me to adopt such a discouraging theory. My object is rather to point out what is good, than to stigmatize what is bad—to afford the patient, if I can, the means of comfort and enjoyment, and not to tell him of his sufferings, or of the means ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 13, No. 374 • Various

... on the face of the earth. Indeed 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 atrocious vice. ...
— Travels Through France and Italy • Tobias Smollett

... the beginning of his literary career by advertising for hack work in London, being in all a confused mass of impossible detail, loose notes and disconnected opinion, which contemporary English reviews stigmatize as manifestly spurious, "an infamous attempt to palm the united effusions of dullness and indecency upon the world as the genuine production ...
— Laurence Sterne in Germany • Harvey Waterman Thayer

... stamped with a seal of no mean importance, and it bears the royal name of the princely Louis also! And view this cross! decorated as it is with jewels, the gift of the same illustrious hand; it is not apt to be given to the children of infamy, neither is it wise or decorous to stigmatize a man who has not been thought unworthy to consort with princes and nobles by the opprobrious name of the ...
— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper

... know that men stigmatize murder with this name under all circumstances; but posterity often judges differently, and sometimes calls ...
— The Regent's Daughter • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)


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