different between stigmatize vs abastardize

English

Alternative forms

• stigmatise (British)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin stigmatizo (“to brand”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (stigmatíz?, “to mark”), from ?????? (stígma).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?st??m?ta?z/

Verb

stigmatize (third-person singular simple present stigmatizes, present participle stigmatizing, simple past and past participle stigmatized)

1. (transitive) To characterize as disgraceful or ignominious; to mark with a stigma or stigmata.
   • 2010, Mark McClelland, "The 'Beautiful Boy' in Japanese Girls' Manga", in Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives (ed. Toni Johnson-Woods), The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc (2010), ?ISBN, page 78:

     Helen Hardacre, in her study of discourses stigmatizing women who have had abortions, argues that there has been a marked rise in media interest in women's sexuality since the 1970s.

   • 2012, Daphne C. Watkins & Harold W. Neighbors, "Social Determinants of Depression and the Black Male Experience", in Social Determinants of Health Among African-American Men (eds. Henrie M. Treadwell, Clare Xanthos, & Kisha B. Holden), Jossey-Bass (2013), ?ISBN, page 55:

     This chapter examines the social determinants of depression in black men because no other race-by-gender population group has been stigmatized as much as black men.

   Antonym: destigmatize

Derived terms

• stigmatization

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• abastardise (UK)

Etymology

From Middle French abastardir, from Old French a- + bastart (“bastard”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /e??bæs.t??da?z/

Verb

abastardize (third-person singular simple present abastardizes, present participle abastardizing, simple past and past participle abastardized)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To stigmatize as a bastard; debase. [Attested from the late 16^th century until the late 17^th century.]

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