toleration
IPA: tɑɫɝˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- (obsolete) Endurance of evil, suffering etc.
- The allowance of something not explicitly approved; tolerance, forbearance.
- Specifically, the allowance by a government (or other ruling power) of the exercise of religion beyond the state established faith.
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Examples of "toleration" in Sentences
- It's time that we move beyond the idea of toleration, and towards appreciation of the other.
- I think it's time that we moved beyond the idea of toleration and move toward appreciation of the other.
- The duty of mutual toleration is almost the only truth all parties are unanimous in refusing to recognise.
- And, as we are constantly told, the only way to show toleration is to give over more tax money to fund activists, programs, events, and advertising.
- They point, with some appearance of wisdom, to the tolerance chown in Great Britain in dealing with Communism and urge that that toleration is the best remedy.
- Such support, so contrary to American principles of freedom and toleration, is widely interpreted in the region as indifference to the suffering of ordinary Arabs in the Middle East ...
- And if you bothered to look into it, you'd know that he isn't talking about "toleration" in the way that modern America uses the term, but a specific kind of toleration that we might call "religious toleration."
- It did achieve the purpose of translating a large part of the demands of the cahiers into legislative enactments; yet it did not learn the meaning of the word toleration, and it did not pave the way for liberty, but only for a doctrine of liberty.
- He will accept them verbally with alacrity, even with enthusiasm, because the word toleration has been moralized by eminent Whigs; but what he means by toleration is toleration of doctrines that he considers enlightened, and, by liberty, liberty to do what he considers right: that is, he does not mean toleration or liberty at all; for there is no need to tolerate what appears enlightened or to claim liberty to do what most people consider right.
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