'Stigmatizing' definitions:

Definition of 'Stigmatizing'

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  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy. [1913 Webster]
  • To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized. --Addison. [1913 Webster]

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