Definition of Stigmatise

1. Verb. To accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful. "She was stigmatized by society because she had a child out of wedlock"

Exact synonyms: Brand, Denounce, Mark, Stigmatize
Generic synonyms: Label
Derivative terms: Brand, Denouncement, Denunciative, Mark, Stigmatisation, Stigma, Stigmatization

2. Verb. Mark with a stigma or stigmata. "They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress"
Exact synonyms: Stigmatize
Generic synonyms: Mark
Derivative terms: Stigmatisation, Stigmatization

Definition of Stigmatise

1. Verb. (British) (alternative spelling of stigmatize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stigmatise

stigmaria
stigmarias
stigmas
stigmastane
stigmastanes
stigmasterol
stigmasterols
stigmata
stigmatalike
stigmatic
stigmatical
stigmatically
stigmatics
stigmatisation
stigmatisations
stigmatise (current term)
stigmatised
stigmatises
stigmatising
stigmatism
stigmatisms
stigmatist
stigmatists
stigmatizable
stigmatization
stigmatizations
stigmatize
stigmatized
stigmatizes
stigmatizing

Literary usage of Stigmatise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson ... Captain by Thomas Hutchinson (1884)
"And the American historian takes a great deal of trouble to search out and stigmatise a long list of expressions from the Governor's letters to influential ..."

2. The Jamaica Movement: For Promoting the Enforcement of the Slave-trade by David Turnbull (1850)
"But, oh, Sir, they can afford to judge, and stigmatise, and sneer at us ; they are prospering, while we are sinking into ruin—they are rich, whilst we are ..."

3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1858)
"The practices they stigmatise, and their examples of the degeneracy of Romans, were lamentable in themselves. But they are chiefly important, ..."

4. American Business in World Markets: Our Opportunities and Obligations in by James T.M. Moore (1919)
"... CHAPTER IX INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Capital—Catch-Words That stigmatise American Business—Labor the Nursery of Capital—Their Interests Undivided. ..."

5. The Revisers and the Greek Text of the New Testament by Charles John Ellicott, Edwin Palmer (1882)
"He does not hesitate to stigmatise the text printed in that edition as 'a text demonstrably more remote from the Evangelic verity than any which has ever ..."

6. John Cassell's Illustrated History of England by John Frederick Smith, William Howitt (1863)
"The bishop of Llandaff went so far as to stigmatise the service as " a mockery of a religious solemnity, at which every serious Christian must shudder. ..."

7. The Jamaica Movement: For Promoting the Enforcement of the Slave-trade by David Turnbull (1850)
"But, oh, Sir, they can afford to judge, and stigmatise, and sneer at us ; they are prospering, while we are sinking into ruin—they are rich, whilst we are ..."

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