STIGMATIZED

Verb

stigmatized

simple past tense and past participle of stigmatize

Adjective

stigmatized (comparative more stigmatized, superlative most stigmatized)

Subject to a stigma; marked as an outcast.

Source: Wiktionary


STIGMATIZE

Stig"ma*tize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stigmatized; p. pr. & vb. n. Stigmatizing.] Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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