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Date "STIGMATISE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Stigmatise To puncture, to brand (Greek, stigma, a puncture). Slaves used to be branded, sometimes for the sake of recognising them, and sometimes by way of punishment. The branding was effected by applying a red-hot iron marked with certain letters to their forehead, and then rubbing some colouring matter into the wound. A slave that had been branded was by the Romans called a stigmalic, and the brand was called the stigma. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| "STIGMATISE" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "STIGMATISE" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 50% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 50% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 8 | N/A |
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| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "STIGMATISE": de-stigmatise. | |
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| Language | Translations for "STIGMATISE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Italian | stigmatizzare (stigmatize). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | igmatisestay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-i-m-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: mitigates. | |
-2 letters: etatisms, imagists, imitates, mastitis, misstate, mistiest, mitigate, semitist, stagiest. | |
-3 letters: ageisms, ageists, amities, etatism, gamiest, imagist, imitate, miseats, misseat, mitiest, mitises, sagiest, samites, sigmate, statism, stigmas, stimies, tamises. | |
-4 letters: ageism, ageist, agisms, agists, gamest, images, maists, mattes, megass, misate, miseat, misset, sagest, samite, siesta, sigmas, smites, stages, staigs, states, steams, stigma, stimes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-i-m-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: stigmatizes. | |
+3 letters: guesstimating, metastasizing, misestimating, systematising, systematizing. | |
+4 letters: epigrammatists. | |
+5 letters: metalinguistics, misregistration, resystematizing, unmitigatedness. | |
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