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Definition of Toleration
1. Noun. A disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations. "All people should practice toleration and live together in peace"
Generic synonyms: Permissiveness, Tolerance
Specialized synonyms: Self Acceptance
Derivative terms: Accept, Acceptant, Suffer, Tolerate
2. Noun. Official recognition of the right of individuals to hold dissenting opinions (especially in religion).
Category relationships: Faith, Religion, Religious Belief
Derivative terms: Tolerate
Definition of Toleration
1. n. The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.
Definition of Toleration
1. Noun. the tolerance of the beliefs or the culture of others ¹
2. Noun. the official recognition of an individual's right to hold dissenting opinions, especially in religion ¹
3. Noun. lenience or forbearance ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Toleration
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toleration
Literary usage of Toleration
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Literary Studies by Walter Bagehot (1879)
"THE METAPHYSICAL BASIS OF toleration.* (1874.) ONE of the most marked peculiarities
of recent times in England is the increased liberty in the expression of ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1773)
"But, if they are merely of a religious nature, I then af- fert, that he is not
to controul them. For if we do not include in the idea of toleration, ..."
3. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"CHAPTER XI RELIGIOUS toleration IN ENGLAND WHEN we speak of toleration, ...
toleration may be universal, in the sense that all beliefs are so protected; ..."
4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"CHAPTER XI RELIGIOUS toleration IN ENGLAND WHEN we speak of toleration, ...
toleration may be universal, in the sense that all beliefs are so protected; ..."
5. History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1909)
"The main condition of toleration was the absence of fear lest toleration should
be used as a means of attack upon those conditions wno granted it. ..."
6. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1858)
"toleration. A* enlightened toleration is a blessing of the last age—it would seem
... It is curious that Locke published his first letter on "toleration" in ..."
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