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Definition of bigotry:

  • (noun) the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot

Sentence Examples:

The bigotry, ignorance, false principles, and tyranny of these bodies were generally conspicuous

Knowledge has, in our time, triumphed, and is triumphing, over prejudice, and over bigotry.

The physiological performance of the generative function is sure to be attacked by religious bigotry.

That they had great faults, bigotry, intolerance, and superstition, is now generally conceded.

This satisfied bigotry, hypocrisy, and honest ignorance, but honest intelligence was not satisfied.

The latter were steeped in bigotry, and imagined themselves a superior and specially favored people.

What intolerance, bigotry, relentless cruelty, and ignorance of the science of mind are here displayed!

The stupid bigotry of the people in some of the most covenanting districts is almost incredible.

Its shameful pages, smeared all over with bigotry and blood, no doubt were purposely destroyed.

In every possible way I have appealed to them to rise above sectional prejudice and party bigotry.

If there was bigotry and intolerance, it was political or social bigotry and intolerance, not religious.

Indeed, at one time they amounted, in many parts of the Union, to an absurd degree of bigotry.

This answer satisfied bigotry, hypocrisy, and honest ignorance, but honest intelligence was not satisfied.

Having little humor or imagination, he could see nothing in his opponents but ignorance and bigotry.

You could not have warranted manly Samuel Johnson sound, on the points of prejudice and bigotry.

Such narrow-minded bigotry stamps you as a man unfit to represent this district in the legislature.

At the present moment religious bigotry can no longer animate the hatred alike of wise and simple.

We have resisted bigotry in all its shapes, and in all its manifestations, from whatever source.

Their first principle directly attacked all wickedness; their second, all the bigotry in the world.

Others, to their honor be it recorded, tried hard to stem the tide of ignorance and bigotry.

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

His wife encouraged this bigotry, and even stimulated his resentments toward those who differed from him.

And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition.

Do you have to judge another with the same prejudice, bigotry and malice with which he judges you?

Or if they do quarrel with you upon that account, do not imitate the bigotry which you blame.

The transformation of men and things into bigotry is an inexplicable mystery, but the fact is evident.

She maintained a perfect balance between the bigotry of the past and the violence of the present.

They accused her of bigotry for advising a young female friend against the stage as a business.

The leading feature of his character was the total absence of every kind of prejudice or bigotry.

It was no wonder that in that age of religious bigotry he should have been assaulted on both sides.

Like the ever returning tide it eats its way into the most solid rock of prejudice and bigotry.

Of all war work this was among the most destructive of personal bigotry and political prejudice.

I will not be a Minister to carry on systems which I think founded on bigotry and prejudice.

With the progress of free inquiry, we confidently anticipate a consequent gradual triumph over the influence of bigotry.

Men had a blind devotion to their pet newspapers that amounted to something very much akin to bigotry.

After all your bigotry, and hypocrisy, and insults, you desire me to account to you ... for what?

The debate at length assumed a formidable appearance, and bigotry plainly supplied the place of sound reasoning.

He had come believing in her democracy and liberalism, and found bigotry and lack of hospitality instead.

He is plainly full of intelligence, full of enthusiasm for his religion, and, I suspect, full of bigotry.

I think it must be admitted that they have not exhibited in any marked degree bigotry towards Protestants.

And there are few things fiercer than the fire of bigotry, even in minds not destitute of piety.

Taylor's great heart was not chilled by bigotry; neither was it by theology, nor by philosophy.

He showed his bigotry and lack of tolerance in his treatment of Zwingli, of Calvin, and of Erasmus.

This was because she had refused, on account of her religious bigotry, to be crowned with the king.

Can Irish Protestants be accused of bigotry when they contend that these writers mean what they say?

Surrounded by such society, the governor was encouraged to indulge his natural disposition to bigotry and tyranny.

Till then the interests of learning had been crushed by the superstition and bigotry of the times.

The flames of faith are flickering, zeal is cooling and even bigotry is beginning to see the other side.

The passing from the old faith to the new was on the whole remarkably destitute of bigotry.

His reply, in which he complained of the bigotry existing among the denominations, was anything but encouraging.

There is no bigotry so terrible as the bigotry of a country that flatters itself that it is philosophical.

Pride ruled her, religion, or bigotry, had power over her, gold was the strongest influence of all.

It is this that has fostered more persecution in the past than all other forms of bigotry combined.

She was humane, just, and reasonable in all matters not influenced by the religious bigotry of the age.

There was no evidence of patriotic, religious or racial fraternity but conditions of bigotry, hatred and prejudice prevailed instead.

And, indeed, there was then no manifestation of superstition or of bigotry sufficient to alarm the enemies of intolerance.

The presidential election showed that the outburst of bigotry had done more harm to friends than enemies of liberty.

The bigotry with which editors regard the authors whom they illustrate or correct, has been generally remarked.

Mockery and impurity had been welcomed as allies, during the warfare against bigotry, hypocrisy, and selfish ambition.

A rather amusing incident occurred recently, which well illustrates the jealousy, bigotry, and ignorance of these professionals.

Here, parodying extreme Tory bigotry, he argued, with apparent seriousness, that the Dissenters should all be hanged.

We find that religious enthusiasm, inspired during the long wars with the "Infidel Moors," developed into religious bigotry.

This bigotry which prompts inhuman deeds, is not an excuse for sin, but the greatest of spiritual sins.

Those who could escape fled to other countries where a less violent bigotry would allow them a home.

She made her market with equal indifference out of the heroism of William of Orange or the bigotry of Philip.

Bigotry, Sectarianism, and Dogmatic Obstinacy had taken the place of a true and simple worship of the Creator.

His parents acted on this occasion with prudence: they were both, especially his mother, pious, but without bigotry.

Her faith stood so firm in the whirlwind of opinions, that she needed not to bolster it by bigotry.

Its bigotry is again most strikingly demonstrated by the senseless attitude in regard to the great discovery of Prof.

The struggle which patriotism had for a time maintained against bigotry in the royal mind was at an end.

Here they can lay their heads on their pillows at night without fear of mobs, of bigotry and persecution.'

He learned to know the English language and literature, and also learned to despise the bigotry of his hosts.

Nor was he out of sympathy with the men of his time who protested against religious intolerance and bigotry.

It has long been the fashion to talk of the bigotry of the Spaniards, and their mean jealousy of foreigners.

Strangely enough, the bigotry or sex bias and pride does not carry this theory below the human animal.

I found them for the most part "good fellows," and singularly free from the bigotry of their "betters."

University graduates in Medicine would in time wage a long struggle against bigotry to lay the foundations of modern medicine.

It is the more beautiful, and the more wonderful, as having occurred in a dark age of bigotry, intolerance and persecution.

Foiled as it was, the effort of Elizabeth to check the spread of Puritanism was no mere freak of religious bigotry.

In working, it is well to keep strictly to the stitch you have chosen, but not to the point of bigotry.

Such an assertion would be the sign of the narrowest bigotry or the most foolish ignorance of human nature.

I have introduced it solely as a fact that is beyond controversy; but, I trust, without any undue bigotry of opinion.

Uriel d'Acosta they had driven to the verge of insanity and to a tragic death by their cruel bigotry.

It was bigotry to dictate to the sovereign, when full liberty in religious matters was claimed for the subject.

Priestley had been obliged to escape from the iron hand of theological and political bigotry, by leaving the country.

Beyond a few articles of "virtue and bigotry" and his pictures, there was nothing valuable in the entire flat.

The worst of all sins; because a man who has given up his heart to bigotry can have no forgiveness.

It was not only in the mother country that frightful acts of bigotry and lust for wealth were enacted.

One morning poor Granville discerned with grief and pain that all the symptoms of bigotry had invaded his home.

Bigotry has blasted the name of one who for her time was at least the equal of any ruler in Europe.

He became, even in early life, violent in his opinions, until the horror of what he deemed error, amounted to bigotry.

You are blinded by your bigotry, or you would see the leading of every new discovery in the modes of motion.

Here is a town walled up to heaven by walls of Caste and bigotry, but there must be one way in.

Some villains observing her extreme bigotry, resolved (as she was known to be very rich) to share her wealth.

No doubt there was religious bigotry in Holland, but there were also elements of healthy life which kept it in check.

In the play called Mixed Marriage all the bigotry and religious stupidity is shown by the old Protestant father.

The priest of the village is a worthy man; and he has, I know, no sympathy with bigotry and cruelty.

He now gave full rein to his passionate temper, his bigotry for the throne, and his feeling of personal wrong.

Chambers saying, he revolted against bigotry and the kind of religion that was not rich in love to one's neighbor.

One can meet an assertion with argument; but healthy bigotry is the only way in which one can meet a tendency.