bigot
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
bigot (plural bigots)
- One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.
- (obsolete) One who is overly pious in matters of religion, often hypocritically or else superstitiously so.
- 1653, Urquhart, translating Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, book 1:
- He is no bigot or hypocrite, he is not torn and divided betwixt reality and appearance, no wretch of a rugged and peevish disposition, but honest, jovial, resolute, and a good fellow.
- 1664, Henry More, A Modest Enquiry Into the Mystery of Iniquity, page 436:
- Thus one part of their Church becomes Sotts and Bigots; and the other that behold this Scene of things, though they profess themselves of their Church, become a company of profane Atheists and clancular Deriders of all Religion. […] Nay it is a question whether those that do more superstitiously cleave to them, doe it not rather in a kind of confusion and obstupefaction of mind out of fear and suspicion, then any determinate assurance or firm belief of the things they outwardly profess.
- 1820, Charles Maturin, Melmoth the Wanderer, volume 3:
- Donna Clara was a woman of a cold and grave temper, with all the solemnity of a Spaniard, and all the austerity of a bigot.
- 1653, Urquhart, translating Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, book 1:
- French: sectaire, intolérant, fanatique intolérant, fanatique intolérante
- German: intoleranter Fanatiker, intolerante Fanatikerin, often with a strongly pejorative noun such as Hornochse or Idiot instead of "Mensch": engstirniger, intoleranter Mensch, bornierter Mensch, Kleingeist, Rassist, Piesepampel, Kantönligeist
- Italian: fanatico, intollerante, estremista
- Russian: (please verify) фана́тик (ru) m (fanátik), шовини́ст
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