stigmatization
(ˌstɪgmətaɪˈzeɪʃən)
[f. stigmatize v. + -ation.]
The action of stigmatizing, or condition of being stigmatized. lit. and fig.
| 1841 Earl of Shrewsbury Let. to A.L. Phillipps 42 Catherine Emmerich... Her stigmatization. 1854 M. D. Wyatt & Waring Mediæval Crt. Crystal Palace 26 The youth of St. Francis..his stigmatization. 1872 J. S. Shepard tr. Lefebvre's Louise Lateau 126 One of the Friday stigmatizations of Louise Lateau. 1895 Dublin Rev. Apr. 489 Dr. Gourbeyre..has collected..three hundred and twenty-one cases of stigmatisation. 1902 R. H. Sherard Oscar Wilde xx. (1905) 244 How cruelly unjust was this stigmatisation. |