toleration
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Etymology edit
From Middle French toleration, from Latin tolerātiōnem, accusative singular of tolerātiō, from the verb tolerō (“I tolerate”). Compare tolerance.
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Noun edit
toleration (countable and uncountable, plural tolerations)
- (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.
- 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 86:
- Above all, the establishment of toleration helped to weaken the presumption that plurality in matters of faith inevitably caused social disorder.
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Further reading edit
- Toleration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Toleration in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)