It implies a stigma which is altogether out of place.
It is comparatively seldom that savages are reported to attach any stigma to suicide.
Hardships of life may lead to the killing of infants or abandoning of aged parents or eating of human bodies; and necessity and the force of habit may deprive these actions of the stigma which would otherwise be attached to them.
In Madagascar there was no stigma attached to deceit or fraud; they "were rather admired as proofs of superior cunning, as things to be imitated, so far at least as they would not bring the offender within the penalties of the native laws.
The shameful act of Jefferies, in casting on the innocent the stigma of shame and crime which was his own, was quite enough for the honest and simple villagers.
What men feared was not the moral verdict of society, pronouncing them degraded by vicious or violent acts, but the intellectual estimate of incapacity and the stigma of dullness.
I ask your honor to consider the stigmawhich the choice of Harry Arnold as sole administrator would cast upon Robert Floyd, and the prejudice it would work him in the cause I have mentioned.
He might even be called ascetic, were not the stigma precluded by his passion for music and his love of landscape.
Were there nothing else in the way, the stigma of slavery is almost perpetual and ineradicable.
The stigma which slavery has succeeded in attaching to the word "abolition" is already passing away, and it is no longer dangerous to one's reputation to be considered an emancipationist.
As the bee hurries down the canal to its nectar, its back is first brushed by a narrow lip-like stigma and then dusted with pollen.
Suppose that a flower is giving out clouds of pollen, then the chance of a pollen grain reaching a female flower only five feet away is very small, even if the stigma of the female flower is a quarter of an inch in diameter.
But if an insect goes to the catkin of an alder or any other male flower, it will see the red points of the stigma and will very likely go there at once.
This purpose is to carry the pollen from the stamens of one flower to the stigma of another.
If that stigma is affixed to us, let us at least be remunerated for it.
He had shivers on his own account, seeing something of himself magnified, and he loathed the fellow, only to feel more acutely what a stigma may be.
His true stigma is the inadequacy to conceive of human nature except under a twofold mask of sensuous voluptuousness and sensuous ferocity.
The stigmaattached in perpetuity to the posterity of the condemned, whose names were conspicuously emblazoned upon church-walls as foemen to Christ and to the State.
They asserted the liberty of thought and speech, proclaimed the paramount authority of that inner light or indwelling deity which man owns in his brain and breast, and rehabilitated nature from the stigma cast on it by Christianity.
Thoroughly humiliated and quite helpless, he gives sentence, and so in spite of the governor's desperate efforts to escape the stigma of his awful crime, it goes down to all the ages that Jesus was "crucified under Pontius Pilate.
The policeman appears, or God's light is let down upon the scene, and you are discovered as having part in it, and your name is stained and your character gone, and your life marked with a perpetual stigma of disgrace.
I again call upon your Lordships, and upon every order of men in the State, to stamp upon this infamous procedure the indelible stigma of the public abhorrence.
To wash out, by your side, in the blood of the enemies of Scotland, the stigma which now dishonors the name of Bruce!
Think not to impose on her who knows how this vestal Helen followed you in page's attire, and without one stigma being cast upon her maiden delicacy.
You were brought with this shameless grant to mangle the body of the slain Cressingham; a deed which brought a stigma on the Scottish name never to be erased by the disgrace of its perpetrators.
There always are those in every age who are opposed to every thing new, and if allowed, will persecute Reformers with the stigma of Insanity.
When he was preparing to put me into an Insane Asylum, I asked him why he was so very anxious to put the stigma of insanity upon me, when he knew I was not insane?
But shall I on this account withhold the truth, lest such cavilers reject it, and trample it under foot, and then turn and rend me with the stigma of insanity, because I told them the simple truth?
I can do but very little, but that little I will do with all my heart to remove thestigma which attaches to my order through its blind and senseless bigotry.
Some or all of the anthers become twisted so that insects in probing for honey will touch the anthers with one side of their head and the capitate stigma with the other.
However valuable it may be, however large the percentage in the case of any particular colony, it can surely never be large enough to compensate for the stigma attached.
It was a turning point in the national life of the Chinese race, but the compulsory payment of six million dollars for the opium destroyed has left a stigma upon the English name.
Into Smooth Waters Exhilarated by freedom, Alfred began to nurse aspiring projects; he would indict his own father and the doctor, and wipe off the stigmathey had cast on him.
It was Robert Bruce, seeking to offer his services to his country and to wipe out the stigma that his father had cast upon his name.
It is much better to live as the adopted, but honored, child in a home than it is to have to bear the stigmaof illegitimacy.
It is not fair that the girl should be punished the remainder of her life for one mis-step when the man goes absolutely free and without the sign of a stigma attached to him.
The stigma of atheist clung to Raleigh long after he had ceased to deserve it.
He had branded the king's own daughter with the stigma of infamy, and to obtain her consent thereto had kept the axe suspended over her.
In the potato, the pollen is conveyed from the anthers to the stigmaby actual contact of the two organs.
The process of cross-breeding consists in taking the pollen of one variety and applying it to the stigma of another variety, in such a way as to effect its fertilization.
In plants with perfect flower, the stamens are generally situated around and above the pistil, so that the pollen falls upon the stigma by mere force of gravity.
Others contended that the stigma had not been produced until a long time subsequent, when old Roger Chillingworth, being a potent necromancer, had caused it to appear, through the agency of magic and poisonous drugs.
The stigma gone, Hester heaved a long, deep sigh, in which the burden of shame and anguish departed from her spirit.
What imagination would have been irreverent enough to surmise that the same scorching stigma was on them both!
Be men, and by your manhood you can, if you make the start now, lull into eternal sleep this Romish power which villifies your ambitions and brands your offspring with the stigma of disgrace.
Anxious to save their sect from the stigma of suicide the Quakers concurred with the Tories in charging the young man with a hideous complication of crimes.
Apparently the Germans were trying to escape the stigma of mistreating or underfeeding their prisoners.
She motioned me away as though she would free herself from whatever stigma my presence might incur.
