[f. STIGMATIZE v. + -ATION.] The action of stigmatizing, or condition of being stigmatized. lit. and fig.
1841. Earl Shrewsbury, Lett. to A. L. Phillipps, 42. Her [Catherine Emmerich’s] stigmatization took place towards the last days of the year 1812.
1854. M. D. Wyatt & Waring, Mediæval Crt. Crystal Palace, 26. The curtain rises on the youth of St. Francis … his stigmatization.
1872. J. S. Shepard, trans. Lefebvre’s Louise Lateau, 126. One of the Friday stigmatizations of Louise Lateau.
1895. Dublin Rev., April, 489. Dr. Gourbeyre … has collected … three hundred and twenty-one cases of stigmatisation.
1902. R. H. Sherard, Oscar Wilde, xx. (1905), 244. Although none better than himself knew how cruelly unjust was this stigmatisation, he bowed to the verdict of his countrymen.
