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stigmatize


  2  definitions  found 
 
  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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