toleration
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əˈreɪ noun
1.
an act or instance of tolerating, especially of what is not actually approved; forbearance: to show toleration toward the protesters.
2.
permission by law or government of the exercise of religions other than an established religion; noninterference in matters of private faith and worship.
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toleration (ˌtɒləˈreɪʃən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the act or practice of tolerating |
| 2. | freedom to hold religious opinions that differ from the established or prescribed religion of a country |
| toler'ationism | |
| —n | |
| toler'ationist | |
| —n | |
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Toleration
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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Word Origin & History
toleration
1517, "permission granted by authority, license," from M.Fr. tolération (15c.), from L. tolerationem (nom. toleratio) "a bearing, supporting, enduring," from toleratus, pp. of tolerare "to tolerate, lit. "to bear" (see extol). Meaning "forbearance, sufferance" is from
1582. Religious sense is from Act of Toleration, statute granting freedom of religious worship (with conditions) to dissenting Protestants in England, 1689.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
They are now aware that there are limits to toleration.
They represented everything that was hateful about modernity: equal rights, religious toleration and the destruction of tradition.
Ottoman toleration was built on territorial indifference.
Of course getting out of the closet increases their happiness and promotes toleration so maybe it is a virtuous circle.
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