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stigmatize
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    It is true, that in the North of the Union, marriages may be legally contracted between negroes and whites; but public opinion would stigmatize a man who should connect himself with a negress as infamous, and it would be difficult to meet with a single instance of such a union.†  (source)
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    Flinching or crying out was a sign of weakness and stigmatized one's manhood.†  (source)
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    How did Veronica, from the start fatherless, her family stigmatized, grow into her own fine self?†  (source)
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    I didn't think she needed to be any more stigmatized than she already was.†  (source)
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    She assumed a freedom of speculation, then common enough on the other side of the Atlantic, but which our forefathers, had they known it, would have held to be a deadlier crime than that stigmatised by the scarlet letter.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it stigmatized.
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    Why, I had accepted of Grandma Lausch's warning only the part about the danger of our blood and that, through Mama, we were susceptible to love; not the stigmatizing part that made us out the carriers of the germ of ruination.†  (source)
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    He stigmatizes as turbulent and unruly spirits those who would combine their exertions to promote the prosperity of the community, and, perverting the natural meaning of words, he applauds as good citizens those who have no sympathy for any but themselves.†  (source)
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    When Henry lived in Ducie Street he remembered the mews; when he tried to let he forgot it; and if any one had remarked that the mews must be either there or not, he would have felt annoyed, and afterwards have found some opportunity of stigmatising the speaker as academic.†  (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it stigmatizing.
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    On Thursday, I meet with Mr. Embry because Principal Wertz and the school board are requiring all friends and classmates of Theodore Finch to have at least one session with a counselor, even though The Parents, as my mother and father refer to Mr. Finch and Mrs. Finch, are insisting it was an accident, which, I guess, means we're free to mourn him out in the open in a normal, healthy, unstigmatized way.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unstigmatized means not and reverses the meaning of stigmatized. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Meena and her children were stigmatized, and a young man working with Apne Aap was stabbed.†  (source)
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    Illdressing, over-dressing she stigmatised, not savagely, rather with impatient movements of the hands, like those of a painter who puts from him some obvious well-meant glaring imposture; and then, generously, but always critically, she would welcome a shopgirl who had turned her little bit of stuff gallantly, or praise, wholly, with enthusiastic and professional understanding, a French lady descending from her carriage, in chinchilla, robes, pearls.†  (source)
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    Rape is so stigmatizing that many women do not report it, and thus researchers have difficulty tabulating accurate figures.†  (source)
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    But for individuals who feel that the way they speak somehow stigmatizes them and restricts their opportunities, they're clearly going to want to change.†  (source)
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