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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



... teach in Wittenberg, and was welcomed by Luther. Almost immediately, however, a controversy, which had been begun ten years before and been temporarily silenced, broke out more violently than ever. Agricola was the first to teach the views which Luther was the first to stigmatize by the now well-known name Antinomian (q.v.), maintaining that while the unregenerate were still under the Mosaic law, Christians were entirely free from it, being under the gospel alone. In consequence of the bitter controversy with Luther ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... a man that he is not a gentleman is almost to stigmatize him as a social outcast, unfit for the company of his kind—even if it is only one ...
— Peter Ibbetson • George du Marier et al



Words linked to "Stigmatize" :   denounce, brand, stigmatization, label, stigma



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