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stigmata

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stig·ma·ta  (stg-mät, -mt, stgm-)
n.
A plural of stigma.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.stigmatastigmata - marks resembling the wounds on the crucified body of Christ
wound, lesion - an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)
Translations
stigmata [stigˈmɑːtə] npl (REL) → stigmate fpl


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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.
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.
The old effect of asceticism, bred of terrific hardships and toil, had vanished; the features had become broader and heavier, betraying all the stigmata of the life he lived, advertising the man's self-indulgence, harshness, and brutality.
 
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