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Tolerance   /tˈɑlərəns/   Listen
Tolerance

noun
1.
The power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions.
2.
A disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior.  Synonym: permissiveness.
3.
The act of tolerating something.
4.
Willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others.
5.
A permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits.  Synonyms: allowance, leeway, margin.



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"Tolerance" Quotes from Famous Books



... 400l. sterling a year."] that had not sufficed for his openhandedness. Durie's great project for a reconciliation of the Calvinists and Lutherans, and a union of all the Protestant Churches of Europe on some broad basis of mutual tolerance or concession, had hitherto been his hobby in chief. He had other hobbies, however, of a more literary nature, and of late he had been undertaking too freely some work appertaining to "the schooling and education ...
— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson
... smiled. She lowered her eyelids again and surveyed him with the satisfied tolerance a pretty woman can so easily extend when unconquerable ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... of true pleasure can be obtained from the history of the Dutch Jews. In Holland the Jews united secular culture with religious devotion, and the professors of other faiths met them with tolerance and friendliness. Sunshine falls upon the Jewish schools, and right into the heart of a youth, who straightway abandons the Talmud folios, and goes out into the world to proclaim to wondering mankind the evangel of a new philosophy. The ...
— Jewish Literature and Other Essays • Gustav Karpeles
... Reformation. If, through the regulations of the Reformation many were afforded the possibility to marry, the severe persecutions that followed later hampered the freedom of sexual intercourse. The Roman Catholic clergy having in its time displayed a certain degree of tolerance, and even laxity, towards sexual excesses, now the Protestant clergy, once itself was provided for, raged all the more violently against the practice. War was declared upon the public "houses of women;" they were closed as "Holes of Satan;" the prostitutes were persecuted as ...
— Woman under socialism • August Bebel
... close of the century, it attained some cohesion and respectability. The later Baptists, Independents, and Quakers all inherited some portion of its spiritual legacies. To the secular historian its chief interest is in the social teachings, which consistently advocated tolerance, and frequently various forms of anarchy ...
— The Age of the Reformation • Preserved Smith


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