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narrow-ˈmindedness
[-ness.]
The fact or quality of being narrow-minded.
1646Boyle Wks. (1772) I. p. xxxiv, Persons that endeavour to put narrow-mindedness out of countenance, by the practice of so extensive a charity. 1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. ii. §33. 164 The Jews..being led thereto by the same Narrow-mindedness. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 114 The sources of narrow-mindedness, considered as a fault of the will. 1835Arnold in Stanley Life (1844) II. viii. 16 The narrow-mindedness of every sect plays out its own play. 1889G. Findlay Eng. Railway 6 Every weapon that the prejudice and narrow-mindedness of the many..could devise. |