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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Stigmatize \Stig"ma*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stigmatized}; p.
pr & vb n. {Stigmatizing}.] [F. stigmatiser Gr ?.]
1. 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. --Milton.
2. To set a mark of disgrace on to brand with some mark of
reproach or infamy.
To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized.
--Addison.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
stigmatize
v : to accuse or condemn openly or formally: "He denounced the
government action." [syn: {brand}, {denounce}, {mark}]
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