bigot

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The definition of a bigot is a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.

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  1. noun One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
  2. Word History
    Bigots may have more in common with God than one might think. Legend has it that Rollo, the first duke of Normandy, refused to kiss the foot of the French king Charles III, uttering the phrase bi got, his borrowing of the assumed Old English equivalent of our expression by God. Although this story is almost surely apocryphal, it is true that bigot was used by the French as a term of abuse for the Normans, but not in a religious sense. Later, however, the word, or very possibly a homonym, was used abusively in French for the Beguines, members of a Roman Catholic lay sisterhood. From the 15th century on Old French bigot meant "an excessively devoted or hypocritical person.” Bigot is first recorded in English in 1598 with the sense "a superstitious hypocrite.”

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  1. French, from Old French.

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  1. First at end of 16th century, from French bigot, a bigot, a hypocrite, from Old French bigot; of disputed origin. Under this form two or more independent words appear to have been confused, involving the etymology in a mass of fable and conjecture. Whatever its origin, bigot, as a vague term of contempt, came to be confused with Beguin and Beghard. This confusion appears in Middle Latin Bigutti, Biguttœ, used in the 15th century as equivalents of Beghardi and Beguinœ. See Beghard and Beguin.
 

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