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Narrow-mindedness   /nˈɛroʊ-mˈaɪndɪdnəs/   Listen
Narrow-mindedness

noun
1.
An inclination to criticize opposing opinions or shocking behavior.  Synonym: narrowness.






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"Narrow-mindedness" Quotes from Famous Books



... unfavorable to the understanding were connected with the causes or occasions of their first effectual religious impressions. Some quaint cast in the exposition of the Christian faith, not essentially vitiating, but very much distorting and cramping it, or some peculiarity or narrow-mindedness of the teachers, may have conveyed their effect, to enter, as it were, at the door at the same moment that it was opened by the force of a solemn conviction, and to be retained and cherished ever after on the strength of this association. This may have tended to give an obliquity ...
— An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance • John Foster



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