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Definition of Stigmatize
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"
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"
Definition of Stigmatize
1. v. t. To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.
Definition of Stigmatize
1. Verb. (transitive) To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stigmatize
1. [v -TIZED, -TIZING, -TIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stigmatize
Literary usage of Stigmatize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Famous American Statesmen & Orators, Past and Present: With Biographical by Alexander Kelly McClure, Byron Andrews (1902)
"Or is it your design merely to stigmatize us? You cannot stigmatize us. " Ne'er
yet did base dishonor blur our name," Standing securely upon our conscious ..."
2. Curran and His Contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1862)
"... pangs of anticipated orphanage, tell them that you had the boldness and the
justice to stigmatize the monster who had dared to publish the transaction ! ..."
3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1851)
"... then, while we stigmatize all prudence as craft, we must be content to be told
that there may be a boldness which comes under the precept, ..."
4. A Classical Tour Through Italy by John Chetwode Eustace (1818)
"... I have followed nothing but truth ; this honest report it is but just ce to
make; and it is cruelty in the highest degree to stigmatize persons ..."
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