Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stigmatize \Stig"ma*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stigmatized; p. pr. & vb. n. Stigmatizing.] [F. stigmatiser, Gr. ?.]
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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.
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To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy.
To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized.
--Addison.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "to brand or tattoo," from Medieval Latin stigmatizare, from Greek stigmatizein, from stigmat-, stem of stigma (see stigma). Meaning "to blemish" is from 1610s (figurative), 1630s (literal). Related: Stigmatized; stigmatizing.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmat
WordNet
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" [syn: stigmatise, brand, denounce, mark]
mark with a stigma or stigmata; "They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress" [syn: stigmatise]
Usage examples of "stigmatize".
Social condemnation should stigmatize the wrong of mismating, not the undoing of such a wrong.
Seguier were confronted with two other groups within the court who used sheer rhetorical force to seize the political initiative and to stigmatize collaboration with the government as a betrayal of Parlementaire tradition.
Nothing could more gloriously evince the generosity of a British parliament, than this interposition for defending the liberties of Germany, in conjunction with two electors only, against the sense of the other seven, and in direct opposition to the measures taken by the head of the empire, who, in the sequel, stigmatized these two princes as rebels, and treated one of them as an outlaw.
Fresh fuel was continually thrown in by obscure authors of pamphlets and newspapers, who stigmatized and insulted with such virulent perseverance, that no one would have imagined they were actuated by personal motives, not retained by mercenary booksellers, against that unfortunate nobleman.
Yet, instead of assuming such honorable pride, the orthodox theologians were tempted, by the assurance of impunity, to compose fictions, which must be stigmatized with the epithets of fraud and forgery.
At the command of the Barbarians, the occult science of a philosopher was stigmatized with the names of sacrilege and magic.
Egypt have been stigmatized, in every age, as the original source and seminary of the plague.
Impatient of a delay, which he stigmatized as voluntary and culpable, Cyril announced the opening of the synod sixteen days after the festival of Pentecost.
Latins, he was stigmatized with the foul reproach of treason and desertion.
Bernard, with the sharpness of his wit and zeal, has stigmatized the vices of the rebellious people.
She never knew that his lordship, whom Laurence stigmatized as a bagpipe, snatched the first opportunity that presented itself of admitting his cousin Waldo into a joke which was much too rich to be kept to himself.
New Jersey that a prospective buyer had to be notified if a house was a stigmatized property, meaning one that might be impacted by a factor that, on a psychological level, could cause apprehension or fears.
Old Mill Lane, or did it have anything to do with the real estate law about a stigmatized house?
Maybe, after all, in their eyes, I was only the victim of the vandalism, the lady from New York who had the incredibly bad luck to buy a stigmatized house, and then to find a murder victim.
As the American intervention widened and escalated, the way the war was conducted also came to be stigmatized as involving atrocities, illegal uses of force, and even a secret campaign of genocide.