Bigotry

Definition: Bigotry

Bigotry

Noun

1. The intolerance and prejudice of a bigot.

Date "bigotry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1664. (references)

Etymology: Bigotry \Big"ot*ry\, noun. [Compare to the French expression bigoterie.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Bigotry

Synonym: dogmatism (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Credulity	Noun: credulity, credulousness; Adjective: cullibility, gullibility; gross credulity, infatuation; self delusion, self deception; superstition; one's blind side; bigotry; (obstinacy); hyperorthodoxy; misjudgment.
Heterodoxy	Bigotry; (obstinacy); fanaticism, iconoclasm;
Impiety	Hypocrisy; (falsehood); pietism, cant, pious fraud; lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence; misdevotion, formalism, austerity; sanctimony, sanctimoniousness; adj; pharisaism, precisianism; sabbatism, sabbatarianism; odium theologicum, sacerdotalism; bigotry; (obstinacy), (prejudice); blue laws.
Misjudgment	One-sided views, one-track mind, partial views, narrow views, confined views, superficial views, one-sided ideas, partial ideas, narrow ideas, confined ideas, superficial ideas, one-sided conceptions, partial conceptions, narrow conceptions, confined conceptions, superficial conceptions, one-sided notions, partial notions, narrow notions, confined notions, superficial notions; narrow mind; bigotry; (obstinacy); odium theologicum; pedantry; hypercriticism.
	Bias, bigotry, warp, twist; hobby, fad, quirk, crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye.
Obstinacy	Bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism; opiniatry, opiniativeness; fixed idea; (prejudgment); fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania; opinionatedness opinionativeness.
Wrong	Partiality, leaning, bias; favor, favoritism; nepotism, party spirit, partisanship; bigotry.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Bigotry

Specialty definitions using "bigotry": Beaten with his own Staff ♦ Mouse. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

I would die to free our people from the chains of bigotry and superstition. (Lady Jane; writing credit: Chris Bryant; David Edgar)

There is no racial bigotry here. (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford, Michael Herr, Stanley Kubrick)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Bigotry (Lucent Overview Series) (reference) Chiropractic Speaks Out: A Reply to Medical Propaganda, Bigotry and Ignorance (reference) Cootie Shots: Theatrical Inoculations Against Bigotry for Kids, Parents, and Teachers (reference) Hate Groups in America: A Record of Bigotry and Violence (reference) Hatred, Bigotry, and Prejudice - Definitions, Causes & Solutions (Contemporary Issues) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Colton	Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin	Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
Heraclitus	Bigotry is the sacred disease.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	To prudery she added bigotry, a suitable lining.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christians were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee, the most ancient and famous city of the world, female heretics were thrown to the mice. Jakak-Zotp, the historian, the only Otumwump whose writings have descended to us, says that these martyrs met their death with little dignity and much exertion. He even attempts to exculpate the mice (such is the malice of bigotry) by declaring that the unfortunate women perished, some from exhaustion, some of broken necks from falling over their own feet, and some from lack of restoratives. The mice, he avers, enjoyed the pleasures of the chase with composure. But if "Roman history is nine-tenths lying," we can hardly expect a smaller proportion of that rhetorical figure in the annals of a people capable of so incredible cruelty to a lovely women; for a hard heart has a false tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	It's said that the Pilgrims brought homophobia, environmental destruction, racism, bigotry and the XFL onto the peace-loving tribes.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Madison	1809-1817	More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
George Bush	1989-1993	Every one of us has a responsibility to speak out against racism, bigotry, and hate.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	We still see evidence of abiding bigotry and intolerance, in ugly words and awful violence, in burned churches and bombed buildings.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Bigotry" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bigotry" is used about 80 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	80	37,112

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "bigotry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fanatizëm (fanaticism, zealotry). (various references)

Arabic		‏تعصب أعمى, ‏تعصب بدون وعي. (various references)

Bulgarian		фанатизъм (fanaticism, partisanship, zealotry), биготизъм. (various references)

Chinese		顽固 (Dogged, hardheaded, headstrong). (various references)

Czech		bigotnost, náboženský fanatismus. (various references)

Farsi		تعصب (Bias, Intolerance, Preconception, Prejudice, Prepossession, Zeal, Zealotry), سرسختی درعقیده , عمل تعصب امیز. (various references)

Finnish		hurskastelu (sanctimoniousness). (various references)

French		bigoterie. (various references)

German		engstirnigkeit (insularity, narrow mindedness, small-mindedness). (various references)

Greek		αδιαλλαξία (implacability, implacableness, intolerance, intransigence), θρησκοληψία (pietism, religiosity). (various references)

Hebrew		ק� אות (fanaticism, zeal, zealotry). (various references)

Hungarian		vakbuzgóság (zealotry). (various references)

Indonesian		kefanatikan. (various references)

Italian		bigottismo, bigotteria. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		偏屈 (eccentricity, obstinacy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		へ�"くつ (eccentricity, obstinacy). (various references)

Korean		완미한 � 앙. (various references)

Manx		doalchraueeaght. (various references)

Pig Latin		igotrybay

Portuguese		beatice (hypocrite, pietism, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony), intolerância (impatience, intolerance, intolerant), fanatismo (fancier, zealotry). (various references)

Romanian		bigotism (religionism), habotnicie. (various references)

Russian		слепая приверженность, фанатизм (fanaticism, zealotry). (various references)

Scottish		tnùth (envy, jealousy, malice). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bigotizam, netrpeljivost. (various references)

Spanish		intolerancia (intolerance). (various references)

Swedish		bigotteri, trångsynthet (narrow outlook, narrowness, parochialism). (various references)

Thai		การแส�"งความรู้สึกหรือความเชื่อที่ไม่มีเหตุผล. (various references)

Turkish		bağnazlık (fanaticism, illiberality, zealotry), yobazlık (fanaticism, religiosity). (various references)

Ukranian		сліпа прихильність (partisanship), фанатизм (fanaticism, zealotry). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự tin mù quáng. (various references)

Welsh		dallbleidiaeth. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Bigotry" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: biagotry, bigary, bigatry, Bigerry, biggotry, bogotry, bugotry. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "bigotry" (pronounced bi"gutrē)
4	-u t r ē	asymmetry, banditry, basketry, cabinetry, circuitry, dissymmetry, gadgetry, geometry, helotry, idolatry, optometry, poetry, psychiatry, punditry, puppetry, rocketry, spectrometry, summitry, symmetry, telemetry, toiletry, zealotry.
3	-t r ē	ancestry, artistry, baptistery, biochemistry, carpentry, chemistry, complementary, country, dentistry, elementary, entry, forestry, gallantry, gantry, gentry, geochemistry, industry, infantry, Maestri, ministry, mitre, pageantry, palmistry, paltry, pantry, pastry, peasantry, pedantry, pleasantry, poultry, reentry, registry, sentry, sultry, tapestry, wintry.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-g-i-o-r-t-y"
	-2 letters: bigot, borty, griot, orbit, trigo.
	-3 letters: bogy, bort, brig, brio, brit, giro, girt, goby, gory, grit, grot, gyri, gyro, obit, orby, orgy, riot, roti, ryot, tiro, toby, tori, tory, trig, trio, troy, tyro, yogi.
	-4 letters: big, bio, bit, bog, bot, boy, bro, gib, git, gob, gor, got, goy, obi, orb, ort, rib, rig.
	Words containing the letters "b-g-i-o-r-t-y"
	+2 letters: tribology.
	+3 letters: bryologist, obligatory.
	+4 letters: bryologists.
	+5 letters: astrobiology, bacteriology, embryologist, forgeability, obligatorily.
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