BIGOTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bigotry mean? 

• BIGOTRY (noun)
  The noun BIGOTRY has 1 sense:

1. the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot

  Familiarity information: BIGOTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIGOTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The intolerance and prejudice of a bigot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

bigotry; dogmatism

Hypernyms ("bigotry" is a kind of...):

intolerance (unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs)

 Context examples 

I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as Jane Eyre: in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry—that parent of crime—an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)