[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That stigmatizes: see the verb.

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1650.  Bulwer, Anthropomet., Pref. Art with her bold Stigmatizing hand.

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1651.  J. C[leveland], Poems, 39. A stigmatizing brand of Infamy.

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1809.  Campbell, Gert. Wyom., III. viii. Thy beloved heart … Would feel like mine the stigmatising brand!

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1883.  J. Parker, Apost. Life, II. 198. I am not going to … fasten upon you some stigmatising term.

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