Lexic.us

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"

2. Verb. Mark with a stigma or stigmata. "They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress"

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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