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The act of stigmatizing
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stigmatization
Word definitions for stigmatization in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1822, noun of action from stigmatize .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stigmatization \Stig`ma*ti*za"tion\, n. The act of stigmatizing. (R. C. Ch.) The production of stigmata upon the body. See Stigma , 8.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The process or act of stigmatize. 2 (context theology English) The production of stigmata upon the body.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of stigmatizing [syn: stigmatisation , branding ]
Usage examples of stigmatization.
Indeed, the very process of moving away from the initial procedure of prepublication censorship had involved the explicit stigmatization of the left as the new enemy of democracy.
However, by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, even Roman Catholicism came to look upon contemplation as something peculiar, often associated with visions, revelations, raptures, stigmatization, lev-itation, and other bizarre psychophysical phenomena.
Between them, these two may decree that a fete galant e shall move to tears, that a crucifixion shall be serene to the point of cheerfulness, that a stigmatization shall be almost intolerably sexy, that the likeness of a prodigy of female brainlessness (I am thinking now of Ingres' incomparable Mme.