Definitions for: Stigmatize

[v] mark with a stigma or stigmata; "They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress"
[v] to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful; "He denounced the government action"; "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock"

Webster (1913) Definition: Stig"ma*tize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stigmatized; p.
pr. & vb. n. Stigmatizing.] [F. stigmatiser, Gr. ?.]
1. 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. --Milton.

2. To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of
reproach or infamy.

To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized.
--Addison.

Synonyms: brand, denounce, mark, stigmatise, stigmatise

See Also: label, mark

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