Also 7 bigottry. [a. F. bigoterie, f. bigot: see -RY.] The condition of a bigot; obstinate and unenlightened attachment to a particular creed, opinion, system or party.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., XIV. (1706), III. 423. The present Duke was with more than ordinary Bigottry zealous in the Roman Religion.
1725. Watts, Logic, II. iii. (1729), 205 (J.). Were it not for the Influence of Self, and a Bigotry to our own Tenets, [etc.].
1800. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), IV. 319. We see the bigotry of an Italian to the ancient splendor of his country.
1876. Green, Short Hist., vii. § 6 (1882), 406. The bigotry of Philip was met by a bigotry as merciless as his own.
b. concr. A specimen or act of bigotry.
1715. Bentley, Serm., x. 351. These Bigotries were yet without any mixture of Craft and Knavery.
