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US
/ˌtɑɫɝˈeɪʃən/
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[ UK /tˌɒləɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /tˌɒləɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations
all people should practice toleration and live together in peace - official recognition of the right of individuals to hold dissenting opinions (especially in religion)
How To Use toleration In A Sentence
- He should fight against oppression and to establish justice and the broadest principles of religious toleration.
- Interesting, also, that some of the hits for 'intoleration' are people actually querying whether the word exists. On tolerating
- Like the Greeks we value richness of life and toleration. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
- It sure would bring a new level of understanding to our world of intoleration. Trolls, Anger, Taking Offense and One-Hit- Wonders
- So he began to move away from such division to reluctant toleration of partition of India.
- There are important variations, to be sure, in the conception of the extent of the in-group and in the limits of toleration of lying and stealing under certain conditions.
- He rejected confessional Christianity and allowed religious toleration in his kingdom.
- There are many approaches to this problem, but one large theme demands attention: where did religious toleration come from? The Times Literary Supplement
- As, by the public resolutions, and foresaid unbounded toleration, the bounds fixed by JEHOVAH, and homologated and sworn to, in our national attainments and constitution, were greatly altered, so the parliament of Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive
- He ignores the long tradition of religious toleration under the Ottoman Empire.