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Meanings of toleration in English

Portuguese
tolerância
Spanish
tolerancia

A disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations.

        tolerância
        Russian
        толерантность
        Portuguese
        tolerância
        Spanish
        tolerancia
        Catalan
        tolerància social

        The practice of allowing or permitting a thing, person, or idea of which one disapproves.

            Related terms
            толерантность
            Usage of toleration in English
            1
            The result of the scheme of toleration was an increase in disorder.
            A Short History of Scotland
            2
            It heightens pleasure enormously, to say nothing of the increase in toleration.
            The Status Civilization
            3
            The distinction between civil toleration and theological toleration is vain and childish.
            Emile
            4
            The Pacification of Ghent had found the door open to religious toleration.
            The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 27: 1577-78
            5
            There is a greatness in modern toleration which our ancestors knew not.
            Friends in Council — First Series
            6
            Milton-ultra liberal as he was-excepted the Catholics from his plan of toleration.
            Historical Papers / Part 3 from Volume VI of The Works of John G...
            7
            The boldness and license of his satires are far beyond modern toleration.
            Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho...
            8
            The spirit of toleration manifested by Catharine is worthy of all praise.
            The Empire of Russia: From the Remotest Periods to the Present T...
            9
            Under this spirit of toleration the Christian church grew with great rapidity.
            The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval Hi...
            10
            He showed plainly that the Protestants were to find no toleration henceforth.
            Heroes of Modern Europe
            11
            No Northern party would ever venture to give it toleration after this.
            The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
            12
            He had sort of manly toleration for all her whims and weaknesses.
            What Can She Do?
            13
            Hence, though late, arose the paradoxical principle and salutary practice of toleration.
            The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part D. / From...
            14
            There is a point where toleration sinks into sheer baseness and poltroonery.
            The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
            15
            Virginia spoke in patient toleration of Miss Bentley's strange lapse of memory.
            The Little Red Chimney: Being the Love Story of a Candy Man
            16
            And can toleration in the active-spirited be ever anything more than approximate?
            The Coryston Family / A Novel
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            Translations for toleration
            Portuguese
            tolerância
            Toleration through the time
            Toleration across language varieties
            United Kingdom
            Common
            United States of America
            Less common