Synonyms for toleration
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : tol-uh-rey-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌtɒl əˈreɪ ʃən |
Top 10 synonyms for toleration
Définition of toleration
Origin :- 1510s, "permission granted by authority, license," from Middle French tolération (15c.), from Latin tolerationem (nominative toleratio) "a bearing, supporting, enduring," noun of action from past participle stem of tolerare "to tolerate, literally "to bear" (see extol). Meaning "forbearance, sufferance" is from 1580s. Religious sense is from Act of Toleration, statute granting freedom of religious worship (with conditions) to dissenting Protestants in England, 1689.
- noun tolerance
- Wanhope waited for a thoughtful moment of censure eventuating in toleration.
- Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
- And can toleration in the active-spirited be ever anything more than approximate?
- Extract from : « The Coryston Family » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- Plato has not advanced quite so far as this in the path of toleration.
- Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
- They babbled of toleration, as if any heresy were to be endured, if only it were believed.
- Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
- Their aspirations are all on the side of toleration, harmony and peaceful progress.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- We must not strain the toleration of the French authorities too much!
- Extract from : « The Arrow of Gold » by Joseph Conrad
- There is a point where toleration sinks into sheer baseness and poltroonery.
- Extract from : « The Biglow Papers » by James Russell Lowell
- And this, my brethren, may teach us toleration and compassion for the rich.
- Extract from : « The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 » by Various
- Again the boy made a mute appeal for toleration, as he replied, “I was first.”
- Extract from : « Follow My leader » by Talbot Baines Reed
- But that great experiment of toleration lasted less than a century.
- Extract from : « John Knox » by A. Taylor Innes
Antonyms for toleration
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