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Across literary traditions, the word "bigot" emerges with a range of functions. In some works it serves as a proper name, as in the works of Shakespeare where characters like Bigot Salisbury or Bigot Prince Henry populate the stage ([1], [2], [3], [4]). In historical and satirical narratives, the term is wielded to characterize those who display obstinate and intolerant zeal—whether in religious or political matters—with figures described as a "religious bigot" or a "cruel bigot" embodying the perils of fanaticism ([5], [6], [7], [8], [9]). At times, the word assumes an ironic tone, highlighting the absurdity of rigid prejudice or the follies of dogmatic behavior, and even enters dialogue as a defiant self-description or casual epithet ([10], [11], [12], [13]). In this way, "bigot" functions not only as a marker of personal identity but also as a critical commentary on narrow-mindedness throughout the literary landscape.
  1. Another part of the battlefield Enter SALISBURY, PEMBROKE, and BIGOT SALISBURY.
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  2. The orchard at Swinstead Abbey Enter PRINCE HENRY, SALISBURY, and BIGOT PRINCE HENRY.
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  3. [Dies] Enter PEMBROKE, SALISBURY, and BIGOT SALISBURY.
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  4. The DAUPHIN'S camp at Saint Edmundsbury Enter, in arms, LEWIS, SALISBURY, MELUN, PEMBROKE, BIGOT, and soldiers LEWIS.
    — from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
  5. “I will give the hoary bigot no advantage over me; and for Rebecca, she hath not merited at my hand that I should expose rank and honour for her sake.
    — from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
  6. He was assassinated by a man whom he had never injured—by the most unscrupulous of all misguided men—a religious bigot.
    — from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of NapoleonFor the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord
  7. In his way, Voltaire was a bigot, an intolerant bigot.
    — from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
  8. A religious bigot at the head of an empire, is one of the greatest scourges which Heaven in its fury could have sent upon earth.
    — from Superstition In All Ages (1732)Common Sense by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
  9. However, the practice was continued, as might have been expected, by the dull bigot James the Second and his dull daughter Queen Anne.
    — from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer
  10. I am no bigot!—or fool either.... August 23d.
    — from A Confederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson
  11. I care not a jot whether this canting bigot acts in different colours to-day, whether he dresses in scarlet or dons the uniform of a hussar.
    — from Ecce Homo by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  12. When I attempt to tell him (because if I were he I know very well what I should believe in) he calls me a pampered bigot.
    — from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James
  13. The throne a bigot keep, a genius quit, Faithless through piety, and duped through wit?
    — from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

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