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bigotise

bigotise is the alternative form of bigotize.

Meaning of bigotize

Verb

bigotize (third-person singular simple present bigotizes, present participle bigotizing, simple past and past participle bigotized)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To be a bigot; act a bigot.
    • Require not, however shrewd your guess, my acknowledgment of this brain-child; forgive all unintended harms; supply what is lacking in my charities; politically, socially, authorially, think that I bigotize in theoretic fun, but am incarnate Tolerance for practical earnest.1851, Martin Farquhar Tupper, The Complete Works of Martin F. Tupper, page 169
  2. (rare, transitive) To make a bigot out of.
    • Outside of this limitation the term has no use but to confuse the public and to exult and bigotise the sceptic.1911, Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research

Forms of bigotise

third-person singular presentbigotises
present participlebigotising
past participlebigotised
pastbigotised

Origin of bigotise

From bigot + -ise.

Questions about bigotise

What is bigotise the alternative form of?
Bigotise is the alternative form of bigotize.

Words near bigotise in the dictionary

  1. bigotdom
  2. bigoted
  3. bigotedly
  4. bigotedness
  5. Bigotgate
  6. bigotise
  7. bigotish
  8. bigotize
  9. bigotized
  10. bigotizes
  11. bigotizing

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