stigmata
IPA: stɪgmˈɑtʌ
Root Word: Stigmata
noun
- (religion, Christianity) bodily marks or sores, corresponding in location to the crucifixion wounds of Christ; supposed to occur during states of religious ecstasy or hysteria, and sometimes reported to bleed periodically
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Examples of "stigmata" in Sentences
- This is a general article on stigmata.
- Transverberation and visible stigmata.
- He was the first to receive the stigmata.
- She is said to have received the stigmata.
- The Jasmine stigmata are wonderfully creepy.
- At that point the band was known as Stigmata.
- The Giant sees that the boy bears the stigmata.
- An individual bearing stigmata is referred to as a stigmatic.
- In other words the photo shows the stigmata without stigmatizing.
- At the time of receiving the stigmata they are overwhelmed with emotions.
- For example, some who fixate on the image of the crucifixion are known to reproduce the wounds of Christ so-called stigmata.
- As he awaited sentencing on bribe charges, Oliver Thomas seemingly implied that he had stigmata from a similar heroic episode:
- Francis the peculiar and signal prerogative of the stigmata, that is to say, previous to imprinting on his body the five wounds of our
- God alone is the source of authentic stigmata, which is an external manifestation of the most ardent love and longing for God resulting in the spiritual wound of love in the heart.
- BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Three hundred thousand gathered in St. Peter's Square over the weekend, there to witness the rise to sainthood of Padre Pio, a friar who bore the stigmata, that is the marks of crucifixion.
- These insensitive areas, known as stigmata, played a very important rôle in the epidemic of witchcraft hunting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when the witch was so diagnosed if she felt no pain when a needle was thrust into her.