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单词 toleration
释义

toleration

/tɒləˈreɪʃ(ə)n /
noun [mass noun]
The practice of tolerating something, in particular differences of opinion or behaviour: the king demanded greater religious toleration...
  • He ignores the long tradition of religious toleration under the Ottoman Empire.
  • They also desired fair trials, religious toleration and vast administrative reforms.
  • His dissertation is a study of the politics of religious toleration in the middle colonies.

Synonyms

forbearance, liberality, open-mindedness, lack of prejudice, lack of bias, broad-mindedness, liberalism;
patience, long-suffering, magnanimity, sympathy, charity, lenience, leniency, lenity, indulgence, sufferance, clemency, permissiveness, condoning, condonation, complaisance, laxness
acceptance, tolerance, approval, understanding, endurance, putting up with, ignoring
freedom of worship, religious freedom, freedom of conscience

Origin

Late 15th century (denoting the granting of permission by authority): from French tolération, from Latin toleratio(n-), from tolerare (see tolerate).

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