Definition of "bigot"

bigot

/ˈbɪɡət/

noun
plural bigots
1. One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.
  Quotations
  A former senior minister from Boris Johnson’s government told the Guardian they believed Braverman was a “real racist bigot”.
  2023 April 13, Aletha Adu, Jessica Elgot, Kiran Stacey, “Senior Conservatives hit out at Suella Braverman’s ‘racist rhetoric’”, in The Guardian‎
2. (obsolete) One who is overly pious in matters of religion, often hypocritically or else superstitiously so.
  Quotations
  He is no bigot or hypocrite, he is not torn and divided betwixt reality and appearance, no wretch of a rugged and peevish disposition, but honest, jovial, resolute, and a good fellow.
  1653, Urquhart, translating Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais, book 1
  Thus one part of their Church becomes Sotts and Bigots; and the other that behold this Scene of things, though they profess themselves of their Church, become a company of profane Atheists and clancular Deriders of all Religion. […] Nay it is a question whether those that do more superstitiously cleave to them, doe it not rather in a kind of confusion and obstupefaction of mind out of fear and suspicion, then any determinate assurance or firm belief of the things they outwardly profess.
  1664, Henry More, A Modest Enquiry Into the Mystery of Iniquity, page 436
  Donna Clara was a woman of a cold and grave temper, with all the solemnity of a Spaniard, and all the austerity of a bigot.
  1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], page 240