stig·ma·ta

(stĭg-mä′tə, -măt′ə, stĭg′mə-)

A plural of stigma.

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Noun

stigmata - marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ

lesion - an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)

Translations

stigmata

[stɪgˈmɑːtə] npl → stigmates mpl

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

stigmata

[stɪgˈmɑːtə] npl (Rel) → stigmate fpl

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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References in classic literature

That delicately bronzed skin, almost oriental in its coloring, that raven hair, the large liquid eyes, the full but exquisite lips,--all the stigmata of passion were there.

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His face was wrinkled and his hair silvered; but an intelligent observer would have recognized at once the stigmata of passion and the furrows of pleasure which appeared in the crow's-feet and the marches-du-palais, so prized at the court of Cythera.

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God can grant charisms, such as stigmata to any person, even one in a state of mortal sin or outside the Church.'

Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, stigmatist and mystic

It is little surprise that Judeo-Christian religious themes were tethered to stigma, considering stigma's etymological grounding in stigmata (Smith, 2007).

The Hijacked Hashtag: The Constitutive Features of Abortion Stigma in the #ShoutYourAbortion Twitter Campaign

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