Ignominious vs Destigmatize - What's the difference?
ignominious | destigmatize |
Marked by shame or disgrace.
*1902 , Thomas Ebenezer Webb, The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence , page 242:
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to remove the disgraceful or ignominious characterization from.
* 1999 , Thomas Stephen Szasz, Fatal freedom: the ethics and politics of suicide
As an adjective ignominious
is marked by shame or disgrace.As a verb destigmatize is
to remove the disgraceful or ignominious characterization from.ignominious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Greene died of a debauch; and Marlowe, the gracer of tragedians, perished in an ignominious brawl.
- In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year.
Synonyms
* debasing * degrading * humiliatingDerived terms
* ignominiouslydestigmatize
English
Verb
- Before we can destigmatize suicide — assuming that is what we want to do — we must acknowledge that killing oneself is still an intensely stigmatized act...