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Parochial vs Intolerant - What's the difference?

parochial | intolerant | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between parochial and intolerant

is that parochial is pertaining to a parish while intolerant is unable or indisposed to tolerate, endure or bear.

As a noun intolerant is

one who is intolerant; a bigot.

parochial

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a parish.
  • Characterized by an unsophisticated focus on local concerns to the exclusion of wider contexts; elementary in scope or outlook.
    • The use of simple, primary colors in the painting gave it a parochial feel .
    Some people in the United States have been accused of taking a parochial view, of not being interested in international matters.
  • * 1918 , 1st of February, "
    • But for men of principle and honour and straightforward thought there could be no middle course and no paltering with petty issues of party or parochial advantage.
  • * 1969 , : A History of the Scottish People 1560-1830 , p 341:
    • Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial .

    Related terms

    * parochial school * parochial vicar * parochialism ----

    intolerant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unable or indisposed to tolerate, endure or bear.
    • I am lactose-intolerant , so I can't drink milk.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • The powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses.
  • Not tolerant; close-minded about new or different ideas. indisposed to tolerate contrary opinions or beliefs; impatient of dissent or opposition; denying or refusing the right of private opinion or choice in others; inclined to persecute or suppress dissent.

    • Related terms

    * intolerance * intolerantly * intolerate * intoleration * tolerance * tolerant

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is intolerant; a bigot.
  • * 1856 , John David Chambers, Strictures, legal and historical, on the judgment of the Consistory Court of London, in December, 1855, in the Case of Westerton Versus Liddell
    • a portion of the prejudice which darkened the spirits of these intolerants , might perhaps have cast its shadow over him.

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