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bigotry

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FromFrenchbigoterie, frombigot. Bysurface analysis,bigot +‎-ry.

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bigotry (countable anduncountable,pluralbigotries)

  1. Thecondition or thecharacteristicquality of abigot, especiallyreligious,anti-religious orracialintolerantprejudice;opinionatedness;fanaticism;fanaticintolerance.
    • 1979, Ted Robert Gurr,Violence in America: Protest, Rebellion, Reform, page131:
      The remarkable resilience of the Ku Klux Klan is a sad reminder of the persistence of racial and religiousbigotry in the United States. No terrorist organization can match the Klan's mystique or long history, and few can match its success.
    • 1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, inThe Satanic Verses, page272:
      For boys like Battuta, white women — never mind fat, Jewish, non-deferential white women — were for fucking and throwing over. What one hates in whites — love of brown sugar — one must also hate when it turns up, inverted, in black.Bigotry is not only a function of power.
  2. (dated)Obstinateprejudice oropinionatedness.

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intolerant prejudice, opinionatedness, or fanaticism; fanatic intolerance

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