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narrow-minded, a.
[narrow a. 4.]
Lacking in breadth of mind; incapable of broad views; illiberal, bigoted, prejudiced. Also absol.
1625B. Jonson Staple of News v. i, A narrow minded man! my thoughts doe dwell All in a Lane, or line indeed. 1636― Discov. Wks. (Rtldg.) 743/2 He is a narrow⁓minded man, that affects a triumph in any glorious study. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 658 The rigorous and narrow-minded throw so many difficulties in the way of salvation. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) II. 271 Where a narrow-minded bigotry appears in such close union with oppression and cruelty. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. 7 The objection whch has been taken..by persons, well meaning perhaps, certainly narrow-minded. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. vii. 266 He shows to the full their narrow-minded hatred of the preceding century.
Hence narrow-ˈmindedly adv.
1827Hare Guesses (1859) 276 Historians are apt to write..presumptuously and narrowmindedly. 1884Q. Rev. Apr. 328 The Chinaman shows himself less narrow-mindedly conservative. |