Definition of Bigot

Big´ot
n.1.
1.A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite.
2.A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.
To doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and believe.
- Macaulay.
a.1.Bigoted.
In a country more bigot than ours.
- Dryden.


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