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toleration [ˌtɒləˈreɪʃən] n
1. the act or practice of tolerating 2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) freedom to hold religious opinions that differ from the established or prescribed religion of a country tolerationism n tolerationist n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
toleration noun 1. acceptance, endurance, indulgence, sanction, allowance, permissiveness, sufferance, condonation They urged toleration of mixed marriages. 2. religious freedom, freedom of conscience, freedom of worship his views on religious toleration, education and politics Translations 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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| All this very plausible reasoning does not convince me, as it has not convinced the wisest of our Statesmen, that our ancestors erred in laying it down as an axiom of policy that the toleration of Irregularity is incompatible with the safety of the State. There was an air of toleration or depreciation about his utterance of these words, that rather depressed me; and I was still looking sideways at his block of a face in search of any encouraging note to the text, when he said here we were at Barnard's Inn. All that their most abject compliances could obtain from him was a toleration of the exercise of their laws. |
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