Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of stigmatizing, or the condition of being stigmatized; specifically, the supposed miraculous impression of the marks of Christ's wounds on the bodies of certain persons.
- noun The act, process, or result of producing, as by hypnotic suggestion, on the surface of the body points or lines which bleed.
- noun Also spelled
stigmatisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of stigmatizing.
- noun (R. C. Ch.) The production of stigmata upon the body. See
Stigma , 8.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The process or act of
stigmatizing . - noun theology The production of
stigmata upon thebody .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of stigmatizing
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Examples
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Out-of-wedlock birth was stigmatized, and stigmatization is a powerful means of regulating behavior, as any smoker or overeater will testify.
Dan Quayle Was Right 1993
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Out-of-wedlock birth was stigmatized, and stigmatization is a powerful means of regulating behavior, as any smoker or overeater will testify.
Dan Quayle Was Right 1993
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Out-of-wedlock birth was stigmatized, and stigmatization is a powerful means of regulating behavior, as any smoker or overeater will testify.
Dan Quayle Was Right 1993
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Out-of-wedlock birth was stigmatized, and stigmatization is a powerful means of regulating behavior, as any smoker or overeater will testify.
Dan Quayle Was Right 1993
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The French government, after months of rancorous debate, has pledged to pass a similar nationwide ban by September, a promise denounced by Muslims as "stigmatization" of their religion.
Belgian lawmakers vote to ban full-face veils in public 2010
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But it is manifestly evident that the very fact of convoking this meeting, of referring to the Roms or the gens du voyage, when certain individual Roms or gens du voyage have been responsible for certain crimes or misdemeanors, in short, of blaming a community for the actions of some of its members, invites a risk of collective stigmatization which is contrary to republican practices.
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Mr. Kirchick gently chides John McCain for not criticizing his party's "stigmatization" of homosexuals, but that's exactly what Mr. Kirchick does to people who believe in traditional morality.
Latest Articles 2008
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With this kind of stigmatization women's safety could be in real danger.
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Mr. Kirchick gently chides John McCain for not criticizing his party's "stigmatization" of homosexuals, but that's exactly what Mr. Kirchick does to people who believe in traditional morality.
Latest Articles 2008
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There must be strong political commitment to this and to stopping stigmatization, which is often more painful than the disease itself. "
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