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Tolerant

adjective

Showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others.

Tolerant and forgiving under provocation. Synonym: kind.

Showing or characterized by broad-mindedness. Synonyms: broad, large-minded, liberal. "Generous and broad sympathies" , "A liberal newspaper" , "Tolerant of his opponent's opinions"

Able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress. Synonym: resistant. "These fish are quite tolerant as long as extremes of pH are avoided" , "The new hybrid is more resistant to drought"

Showing the capacity for endurance. Synonym: patient of. "A man patient of distractions"

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"Tolerant" Quotes from Famous Books

... the white squares of playbills, under which a queue of people watched with happy and indifferent faces a ragged reciter whose burlesque extravagance of gesture showed that one was now in a country more tolerant ...

— The Judge • Rebecca West

... fair imitation of sincerity and tolerant amusement. "My dear, that is no mystery to me. There are men who, finding it impossible or inadvisable to make a physical attack upon their enemy, find ample satisfaction in poisoning his favourite dog, burning his house, or beating up one of his faithful ...

— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne

... obstructive, reluctant, an opponent to all useful measures for the amelioration of the condition of the people of this island. Nothing is further from the truth. You will find that in the past with which we are concerned the House of Lords has shown itself not only tolerant of such measures but anxious to promote them and to make them effectual to the best of its ability. And that, I believe, has been, and I am glad to think it, from time immemorial, the attitude of what I suppose I may call the aristocracy toward the people of this country" ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 21 - The Recent Days (1910-1914) • Charles F. Horne, Editor

... Designer and Writer" and in his "Family Letters," draws a pleasant picture of the intimacy between the artist and the critic. "At one time," he says, "I am sure they even loved one another." But in 1865 Rossetti, never very tolerant of criticism and patronage, took in bad part his friend's remonstrances about the details of "Venus Verticordia." Eighteen months later, Ruskin tried to renew the old acquaintance. Rossetti did not return his call; and further ...

— The Life of John Ruskin • W. G. Collingwood

... upon Japan in this article let me say in the outset, I am not to be understood as being one whit more tolerant of Russian than of Japanese aggression in Manchuria—I am not. In the Russo-Japanese War my sympathies were all with Japan, my present friendships with numbers of her sons I prize very highly, but I cannot blind myself to the ...

— Where Half The World Is Waking Up • Clarence Poe

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