Here's the Oxford English Dictionary entry for "bigotry" from
OED Online:
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1. The quality or condition of a bigot; obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, practice, faction, etc.; intolerance, prejudice.
?1651 C. LOVE Strange & Wonderful Predict. 68 Bigotry, the natural produce of ignorance. a1688 R. CUDWORTH Treat. Freewill (1961) 41 No manner of doubt may be raised in their minds against them, either by sophistical arguments or bigotry in religion. 1695 R. FERGUSON Brief Acct. Incroachments & Depredations of Dutch upon Eng. sig. B, If we had not been Infatuated by Bigotry, and made Insolently Wanton by too much Prosperity. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. XIV. 423 The present Duke was with more than ordinary Bigottry zealous in the Roman Religion. 1725 I. WATTS Logick II. iii. 323 Bigotry to our own Tenets. 1786 W. COWPER Let. 4-5 June (1981) II. 561, I could have hugged him for his liberality, and freedom from bigotry. 1800 T. JEFFERSON Writings (1859) IV. 319 We see the bigotry of an Italian to the ancient splendor of his country. 1876 J. R. GREEN Short Hist. Eng. People (1882) vii. §6. 406 The bigotry of Philip was met by a bigotry as merciless as his own. 1925 Amer. Mercury Oct. 236/1 It is these who let out the lodest yawps on the narrowness and bigotry of the country. 1995 Guardian 18 Aug. 14/5 The rabid bigotry of Hitler's soundbites.
2. As a count noun: an act, example, or kind of bigotry.
1680 A. LITTLETON Serm. at Meeting Natives of Worcester sig. D1v, I know the like Bigotries and Outrages are charged upon our Sectaries even at this time, and that with great vehemence. 1715 R. BENTLEY Serm. Popery 13 These Bigotries..were yet without any mixture of Craft and Knavery. 1747 J. BYROM Epist. to Friend 26 Not first the Saviour's Life and Words relate, And then go preach the Bigotries of State. 1796 C. DICKINSON Trav. Cyllenius II. xviii. 13 The Inquisition waves her fiery brand; Outrageous bigotries all sense disgrace And lawless Viceroys thin the human race. 1859 H. A. MILES Thoughts from Writings Rev. W. E. Channing II. 195 There is also a ‘Nothingarian’ bigotry. 1939 A. H. DAKIN Man Meas. iii. 96 Political fanatics whose conceits continually menace the world, suffer from a bigotry akin to that of the Inquisitors'. 2007 Daily Telegraph (Nexis) 20 Oct. 25 Why does the Left only believe in academic freedom when it suits their own bigotries?
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I can't find the word "opinion" in there, so I guess we've got competing OED's.
I keep thinking Jeff Foxworthy has probably done something on "You might be a bigot if . . . ." At least he should have.
--lemit
