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intolerance noun 1. narrow-mindedness, discrimination, prejudice, racism, bigotry, xenophobia, chauvinism, fanaticism, narrowness, jingoism, racialism, dogmatism, illiberality an act of religious intolerance narrow-mindedness tolerance, open-mindedness, liberality, understanding, broad-mindedness 2. sensitivity, allergy, susceptibility, antipathy, hypersensitivity a blood test which shows food intolerance Translations intolerance [ɪnˈtɒlərəns] N (gen) → intolerancia f; (= bigotry) → intransigencia f (Med) → intolerancia f (to, of a) food intolerance → intolerancia f a los alimentos intolerance n → Intoleranz f → (of gegenüber) (esp Med) → Überempfindlichkeit f → (to, of gegen) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| That what we falsely call a religious cry is easily raised by men who have no religion, and who in their daily practice set at nought the commonest principles of right and wrong; that it is begotten of intolerance and persecution; that it is senseless, besotted, inveterate and unmerciful; all History teaches us. Beginning with physical intolerance for alcohol, for years drinking only for the sake of comradeship and because alcohol was everywhere on the adventure-path, I had now reached the stage where my brain cried out, not merely for a drink, but for a drunk. It ridicules the intolerance and sanctimonious hypocrisy of the Puritans as the Cavaliers insisted on seeing them in the person of the absurd Sir Hudibras and his squire Ralph (partly suggested by Cervantes' Don Quixote and Sancho). |
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