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noun

Toleration n.

The act of tolerating; the allowance of that which is not wholly approved.

Specifically, the allowance of religious opinions and modes of worship in a state when contrary to, or different from, those of the established church or belief.

Hence, freedom from bigotry and severity in judgment of the opinions or belief of others, especially in respect to religious matters.

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... I came to a full stop. It was upon my tongue to have told him the story of the drovers, but at the first word of it my voice died in my throat. There might be a limit to the lawyer's toleration, I reflected. I had not been so long in Britain altogether; for the most part of that time I had been by the heels in limbo in Edinburgh Castle; and already I had confessed to killing one man with ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... Island on the principle of religious toleration; but he carried thither the sobriety and diligence and courage of his former Puritan associations. He provided, as he himself said, "a shelter for persons distressed for conscience." Connecticut was also essentially a "religious ...

— The Nation in a Nutshell • George Makepeace Towle

... thrones and dynasties become unpopular within the area of hostility and discontent, the adherents of Royalty may not be unwilling to appease the demand for vengeance by some theatrical display of meeting it with a pretense or an artifice until the passions of the populace have subsided and sober toleration resumes its sway ...

— Rescuing the Czar - Two authentic Diaries arranged and translated • James P. Smythe

... PENNSYLVANIA.—The toleration and liberality of Penn proved so attractive to the people of the Old World that emigrants came over in large numbers. They came not only from England and Wales, but also from other parts of Europe. In later times thousands of Germans ...

— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... fact that it had been improved wonderfully as the direct result of the war with Japan. In the strenuous years that followed that war, with revolution an ever-present menace, the establishment of a constitutional monarchy, and the granting of religious toleration to the many creeds and sects which helped to make up the population, awakened its diverse people to a new unity, inspired the people with hopefulness and activity, and the morale of the Russian army ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various

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